The Mind-Blowing Life Inside The World's Busiest Airport
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
- Secret Life of the World’s Busiest Airport delves into the inner workings of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, revealing the hidden army of staff and advanced technology that keeps the airport running smoothly 24/7. From air traffic control to baggage handling, security measures to wildlife management, the documentary explores every aspect of the airport's operation, showcasing the remarkable coordination required to handle millions of passengers and flights each year.
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Aviation is the most beautiful and complex industry ever
“Most people don’t even know I exist”
Felt that
The hero we don't know about.
I’m an air traffic controller in Atlanta. Not in the tower, though - I’m a radar controller in a different place. It is the best job I’ve ever had. I have my days like everyone else. Shift work certainly isn’t fun and I’ve certainly missed my fair share of Saturday nights & holidays over the years. But it is meaningful work that also ends at the end of your shift and that is one of the best parts. I’m not taking a bag home full of work and I’m not answering my phone unless I want to. I do my job, I get in my car, and I watch work get smaller in my rear view mirror.
Interesting response. Hope it pays well because I'm sure it's a lot of pressure for staff.
Why doesn't Atlanta call it's taxi way Delta if your ATC like you say you are
@@GamingWithMaddogBecause it can lead to confusion when you’re at an airport where Delta has 800 departures.
@@spades9048 I already knew The answer to that question but you Still didn't answer my question what do they call the taxi way then be quick and don't Google it
What do they call it then he quick don't look it up
Been flying through this airport since 70s..Just had a flight to Atlanta to see friends for a couple days then a flight out to MX a month ago...Amazed how efficient things went.
a huge congrats for all these people working hard for the airport 👍
You chose the right people to interview and follow. Well done.
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
@@billyfouronesix interesting, thanks!
Really enjoyed this. Very well done documentary. I had no idea about many of these jobs they do behind the scenes.
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
This is amazing! My son is a captain at Spirit Airlines, and Atlanlta is his home base. He has never told me much about the inner workings going on at the airport! Just wait until he gets home this week. I'm going to pick his brain even more. Wonderful video! Thanks to the person(s) responsible for making this video available to the general public.
WOW!!! I won't be complaining about the cost of an airline ticket anymore haha. That's INSANE!! Thanks for putting this video together! It was FASCINATING! Plus I freakin LOVE Delta, so it was cool seeing the operations of this airline.
The airport operates like a well-oiled, well-tuned machine. It's almost frightening how well it works. Maybe the people who run the airport should run the country. God knows they couldn't do any worse.
I just LOVE the aviation industry ❤❤ I love these type of documentaries ❤❤❤❤
one of the best and most informative documentaries i've EVER seen. loved seeing all the departments which I never knew about before, and all the interviews of the "average" workers which are so vital for an airport to run. great stuff
Greatest airport in the world, most efficient, safest, quickest to move around.
Might be efficient for US citizens, but as someone who had to go through the immigration process in Atlanta multiple times: Its fucking awful
Here in the South, we say: if you wanna go to heaven, you have to change in Atlanta.😅
As a frequent traveller, I am very appreciative of all the amazing "back of office" work you all do to keep us safe. Thank you so very much 🙏🙏
Thank you for all the work that you do.
Congres to everyone doing a good and outstanding job @ Airports. Is not that simple as it looks. It needs concentration, LOVE, precision and knowing what you signed for. Best job ever. Very dynamic environment.
the normal designation for Taxiway D is Delta, but hecause there are so many Delta Airlines flights at ATL, they call that taxiway "Dixie."
Thanks Naked Science for releasing this documentary. This is by far the most interesting one I've ever watched
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
It’s crazy to see behind the scenes, cause this is my home airport!
What a great doco! Thanks for putting it up
it's been on CZcams before. Guess the people who made it aren't concerned with copyright issues.
Thank you for all your hard work. You are not invisible and I appreciate all the things you do. I learned a lot from this content.
Wonderful documentary and highlights all the hard work that goes into making an airport run smoothly. Congratulations to the TSA for their great work. Such a shame though that there can be a minority with intent to harm passengers. Flying is such an amazing part of life and we are blessed to be able to travel the world
Flying can be both easy and complicated at the same time but mostly good.
The pilots must be like the Superstars of the Airports, I would love to be a commercial pilot.
Nice! ✈🌨
Just had a connecting flight from Jacksonville (FL) to Denver (CO),(May 29). Had about 40 minutes to get off in Terminal A and get on next plane in Terminal T. We Took the train. It ran very smoothy. They had already started the boarding process. We made the flight and our bags were tagged with a Rapid Transfer tag attached to the flight # tag. Everything worked very well and I have to say after watching this video on Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport I am very impressed. They may be the World's Busiest Airport, but every time I have flown thru the airport I have never lost a bag or that it did not make its connection. Great Work by all the men and women who work there to make sure we all get where we are going safely. I for one am a very happy and satisfied customer.
I love Delta and wish that Denver Intl Airport was a hub for them. We prefer them over any other domestic carrier. Keep up the great work. The behind the scenes video was just fascinating to see how they are able to keep everything on schedule is just amazing.
in my experience from recent trips you can have most efficient system but if flights delayed sometimes due to atc holding flights back due to traffic etc there's literally nothing you can do and you just have to deal with delay but the airline will always get you there eventually
Would love to see other big airlines as we do use American and United let’s see how they operate also.
Most airports are the exact same way, you would be surprised how the behind the scenes operations works and just how interconnected everything is. Even with this video, airport operations is almost as incredible as a beehive or ant hill at work. Day in and day out..24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Dallas ( AA HQ trams are some of the most reliable and efficient airport train system)
I love Hartsfield. It’s very well organized.
Thanks, enjoyed, I go thru Atlanta a few times a year, Pretty much smooth sailing.
Awesome documentary!❤🎉🔥💯👌🏾🤩
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
Awesome!
Amazing airport sure. Excellent video buddy
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
Amazing.
Excellent 🌹🌹🌹
really fascinating stuff
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
0:29 You can literally remove the zipped section with a BIC pen. No need to destroy property...
I wonder if Boston Logan has such a baggage system?
Is that a dot matrix printer?
Best airport only if you have global entry and tsa pre
When I fly I try to always schedule around a 2 hr layover. That way delays aren’t so stressful
I’ve been through Atlanta airport many many times without incident. It’s a very well-designed airport with five runways as opposed to JFK with only two, it’s terminals are connected via subway and walkway, I have no issues whatsoever with Atlanta airport. The only issue is Delta may put me on an arriving gate B1 and a connecting gate on E 17 with a short connect connection time but that’s the only issue I see. I used to fly from San Diego to Baltimore via Atlanta monthly and never had an issue issue.
The Hudson River plane took off from LGA not JFK FFS @ 33.45
Never lose your temper with airport workers. We’ll never lose temper with anyone working. Everyone is so important and their priority is to make your day go according to plan.
What happens when you don't invest in rail.
too slow, WAY too much infrastructure required, and impractical for a huge country like america
Probably not a lot of difference for a train station serving 100,000,000 people a year. Having to maintain thousands of miles of rail lines may be even worse.
I landed at ATL from Amsterdam in 22. It took us 30 ( ! ) minutes to get to the gate.
Understandable
Nice insight but the one thing i would like to have seen was where the food is prepared for long haul flights 😊
I question the strategy of sending so many connecting passengers and flights through one airport when Delta has other major hub airports (Minneapolis, Detroit, Salt Lake City, etc.) that can handle large numbers of passengers and flights. Many people who have connected in Atlanta tell me that it’s too overcrowded even with the large number of terminal concourses and runways. I much prefer Detroit or Minneapolis - less crowded at both! (I’ve flown through them.)
Atlanta is a much better candidate for a hub for both of those airports especially in the winter when it gets cold up north. Plus without delta Atlanta wouldn’t be anything so they get multiple benefits at the airport other airlines wouldn’t have.
Personally force my DL connections through Raleigh, Cincinnati, or DTW when I can in the summer just to avoid the Deep South storms. SLC is a slept on connecting hub if I’m going to the west coast or south west but not LAX
That's pretty simplistic logic, which is illogical for all of the moving parts. I love Hartsfield, even though they sent my luggage to Frankfort, KY instead of Frankfurt, Germany...
My mate fainted and passed out on the luggage carousel.
He's slowly coming around!
I want to work at an airport. At my local airport for the ramp agent positions, the pay seems to be far too low for the labor required and be attractive. However I haven't seen any Airside Safety positions and I feel like I would enjoy that more.
If you have any type of mechanical or electrical skills try and get a job in the facilities maintenance department. It will pay a lot better than working on the ramp.
Good video, but not the first time it's been on CZcams.
What is that thumbnail? Plane pushing back or going forward?
Interesting how he quotes costs in British pounds but not the metric system for weights and measures...
Every airport is the biggest/ busiest airport in the world
small note...the comment at 33.38....not accurate...... the 2009 incident was a takeoff from LGA not JFK.....US1549
Atlanta
There is no better way to keep away birds than trained falcon. Many major airports in Europe and all over the world employ falcons.
Ai thumbnail
Thanks for uploading this and supplying our enemy china with our secrets.
Eish, I didn't realize fantasies where real until I read this comment 😂. If others learn how you do things, it can help them to improve their own transport systems hence lessening the trouble of being unsettled when you visit other countries.
That thumbnail is a nightmare vommit
I saw a young woman. In this doccie. She was wearing a very nice tee shirt from Kenya. Where i was born. She must have been there nice documentary
Agreed on the Thumbnail, I definitely have to think about watching this only after reading more comments later on. It's a shame to use such a close minded way to go about something.
Busy not because people want to go there but because of where it is geographically
There is an awful lot of breathless drama at this airport, according to the narrator
I’d be interested in seeing how Formula 1 manage to set up everything.
Why is this video keep being uploaded on different channels?
Copyrights?
agree 100%
What lack of high-speed train infrastructure do to people.
At 34:56, what the airline industry calls _“snarge,”_ the motorcycling community calls _“spooge.”_
I wonder how they manage huge amount of aeroplanes and flying people safely with minimum loss of luggage
I work on the conveyor systems for one of the major airlines so if this ends up being a bit long winded, I apologize.
The luggage tags that you put on your bag get laser scanned and entered into the baggage control computer. That happens when you initially check your bags. Once it is placed on the conveyor it will go through the x-ray systems and then to a bag tag reader (that is a laser scanner that reads your tag again). From there on out the computer knows where the bag is on the conveyor system by using a combination of photo eyes and tachometer encoders. Each individual section of the conveyor will have a photo eye, and a reflector, mounted on it , as well as a tach encoder.The tach encoders are mounted on a belt roller shaft. They tell the computer how fast the belt is running in feet per minute (Meters per minute in metric countries). The photo eye and reflector are mounted opposite each other on the outside of the side panels of each conveyor section.
There are holes in the left and right hand side panels about an inch up from the conveyor belt. One of the holes will have the photo eye mounted such that it will shoot a beam of light across the conveyor belt to a reflector plate that is mounted over the opposite hole. When the bag interrupts the light beam it sends a signal to the computer letting it know that a bag just went by. That starts a timer. Because the computer knows how fast the belt is traveling it will also know when the bag is supposed to go by the next photo eye and reflector. It does this for every section of the conveyor belt.
The short belts will only have a single photo eye setup. The long belts will have multiple photo eyes. If the next photo eye does not sense a bag going by it within the prescribed time limits, or if a photo eye has a bag blocking the light beam for too long, it will shut down the affected area of the conveyor system. That’ is when mechanic has to go clear the jam and restart the belt line. There are other things that will cause the conveyor system to shut down but what i wrote is the basic gist of how the system works.
When the bag has gone past the requisite number of photo eyes it will be diverted onto either a luggage pier or carousel. That is where the ramp workers will load the bags on to the baggage trailers to take them to the planes. The ramp workers will again scan the tags to let the computer know that the bag has made to them. Scanning the tag also ensures that the bag is going to the correct flight.
That tag with the bar code is what keeps track of your bag. When the tag is printed out there are two small peel and stick bar codes on the tag. Make sure that you peel them off of the tag and adhere them to your luggage in an area where they will not peel off very easily. Also put your name, phone number, and address on a piece of paper INSIDE your luggage on the off chance that the bag tag gets torn off of your bag. The airlines don’t want your luggage and they make every effort to get it back to you if it comes up missing. An Air Tag inside your bag is also a great idea.
I hope that this answered your question. 😀
33:35 it was LaGuardia not JFK lol
Wait, they actually service the planes?
Now interview the ticket employees…… awful service. Rudest people
How old is this? Most of the Delta planes appear to be MD80s, which are not used much anymore.
Looks to me like from 2018
Yeah, can't be that old, cos people are using boarding cards on their phones and it refers to a luggage app
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
Driving the Porsche around the ramp without a functional beacon poses a safety risk.
Go get them deputy Fife
The busiest by flight traffic is O’Hare.
And they have automatic toilet seat covers!
Good video but the British accent is a bit suspect
This was narrated by a fairly well known British actor, so I am not sure why you think his accent is dodgy. It sounds perfectly normal to me, with a slight Northern twang
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
When did the US change currency to weight? Pounds
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Give me a job 😊
Even if there's a connection flight I wouldn't allow other people to be delayed for maybe 8 others.if you're going on holiday that's something for you to think about if you know you've to connect IE if your going from say Austria to Australia take yourself to London day before or two days and then fly direct less stress for passengers and everyone I've never flown but I'm one for how things should've and if we were told 35 minutes late because if connecting passengers I should say we want compensating for delay we're on time
GLOBAL ENTRY
dont fly there if you dont have. absolute shitshow. changed our gate 3 times then lost our bags for a 3 day trip to Miami.
WHEN WAS THIS REALLY FILMED (BEFORE i WATCH IT)? DO NOT WANT TO WATCH OLD STUFF LIKE SOME OF YOUR OTHER VIDS.
All the more reason to put tablets in hand luggage not with cargo you don't know if it's gonna get damaged etcnothanjs it would be in a big bum bag round my waist so it wasent holding evacuation in an accident sane as my meds would be in a bum bag
so nobody is gonna mention the ai thumbnail???
The TSA , after they inspected your luggage and they steal your belongings 😂
TSA. Thieves Stealing Anything. LOL
@@ssmt2 🤣
Fuck that whole clickbaity thumbnail. Have some standards.
It’s actually a good video, but I agree, the thumbnail is trash, pure and simple!
It's not original material and has been on CZcams before.
'An airport to stay the hell away from......'
One of the best airports I’ve ever flown out off or connected from
@@debbiegiles9144same here
@@debbiegiles9144 I agree Atlanta is so efficient
great airport
Always my connecting airport
It’s not pronounced Atlanta, it’s At-Lana. Just like it’s not Toronto, it’s Torono.
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There are ZERO buildings at the ATL Airport over a mile long. I worked there for 5 years. Delta Tech Ops is approx 1500 feet long so this video is VERY inaccurate, obviously paid for by Delta. :-(
I wonder how much Delta paid for this video
been thru ATL. i noticed blak people are racist towards white. im from europe, i have an accent and TSA were racist.
my man be more simple
😳Wow Chicago O’Hare International airport used to be the busiest in the world Atlanta took that spot I am so saddened by this news🥲🤣🤣🤣 Now I have to really visit to see what it’s like I’ve never been to Atlanta if I do decide to move to Atlanta Georgia I know I’ll have a job because I’ll be able to transfer my job to the airport if I choose and even though I never been I get to see what it’s like what it looks like but you guys airport what is the train like
When you get on the train, HOLD ON.
@@sellm_bc_arwhite4249 🤣🤣🤣its that rough
I live here and love Atlanta area!