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150 New Restaurants Due to Arrive at ATL, Including Ludacris' 'Chicken n Beer'

January 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

There’s already plenty of awesome options for eats when you travel to—or through—Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, but now even more new restaurants on due to arrive. It’s all part of the latest and greatest addition to the airport, as ATL’s new international terminal is scheduled to debut later this year.

Airport officials haven’t specified where—or when—each new establishment will do its thing, but many of these will hold grand openings later this year, between the new terminal and other vacancies across the airport. In total the city council handed out like $3 billion in concession contracts; that should keep travelers satisfied and satiated for like the next ten years or so.

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10,000 Free Tickets from Megabus' Newest Hub in Atlanta

October 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM | by | Comments (2)

Big news for travelers in the south! Budget traveler favorite Megabus has just expanded their US route network to include a new hub in Atlanta, Georgia. From the ATL, Megabus will run to 11 cities, of course with all routes and all seats starting from their usual $1 (plus 50 cents reservation fee).

The 11 cities from Atlanta are: Birmingham, AL; Mobile, AL; Montgomery, AL; Charlotte, NC; Chattanooga, TN; Knoxville, TN; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; Gainesville, FL; Jacksonville, FL; and Orlando, FL.

That's a lot of Alabama and Florida! With the news comes a giveaway, naturally. Megabus has 10,000 free seats on the new routes, for travel from November 16 to December 16. Enter promo code ATL10K to knock the cheap fares down to FREE.

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Whitney Houston Refuses to Buckle Up on Delta

October 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM | by | Comments (0)

Whitney Houston may have fallen to the D-List, but she's still behaving like an A-List diva. TMZ is reporting that Whitney was nearly thrown off a Delta Airlines flight out of Atlanta yesterday when she refused to buckle up.

Apparently, she "got diva" on a crew member who asked her to fasten her seat belt and only gave in after another attendant warned her she would be kicked off the flight if she didn't. The flight was finally cleared for take off after a crew member grabbed the buckle and fastened it for her.

Whitney was headed to Detroit where she is set to star in the remake of the 1976 film Sparkle, and though her plane behavior seemed strange, a source close to the singer said, "she overreacted a little bit after missing an earlier flight but she's still 100% sober."

[Photo: JustJared]

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Atlanta's Airport Will Install a 'New Front Door' in 2012

October 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

Everyone has an opinion on Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, but lovers and haters can probably agree that the place’s newest terminal should be good for travelers.

The airport already has like 20 terminals—there’s actually six concourses off the main terminal—but they’re planning to add on one more after Terminal E. We’re still several months away, but the billion dollar project should be finished up by next spring. Flying through, we’ve noticed that things on the outside look pretty close to being done, so once the inside is loaded up with a Starbucks or two it should be ready to go.

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A Layover History Lesson at Atlanta Airport

August 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM | by | Comments (0)


As the world’s busiest airport, ATL can be pretty stressful. And, on one of the tightest connections we’ve ever had, a couple of weeks ago, we were feeling that stress ourselves.

That was until we walked out onto concourse E and saw this small exhibit about Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s life, containing photographs and items including King’s radio, the robe he wore when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize and the suit he wore to meet Lyndon Johnson.

Sadly, because of our tight connection, we didn’t get to spend enough time looking at it, but from the airport’s website, it appears that it’s a long-term loan from the King Center, and part of ATL’s Airport Art Program. Other exhibits include an astronomy gallery and a 30ft dinosaur in the main terminal atrium. Because there’s nothing like getting your adrenalin pumping with thoughts of Jurassic Park before catching a flight, right?

Beat that, Amsterdam.

[Photo: Jaunted]

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Wrap Up a Rental Car Deal Thanks to Budget's New Ad-Mobiles

August 11, 2011 at 8:37 AM | by | Comment (1)

We love a nice rental car, but what we don’t love is the cost associated with one. After the airfare and the hotel the travel budget is usually running on empty, but now there’s one rental car company looking to help us out. However, there’s definitely a little bit of a catch.

Budget Rental Car is offering even better deals than with an online coupon, and that’s because they want to wrap your car with advertisements. As long as you don’t mind driving around a moving billboard, you might just be able to save a few additional bucks.

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Get Your Geek On with 40,000 Others During Atlanta's 'Dragon-Con'

July 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you dropped the ball on making plans for this year's Comic-Con, Atlanta's got your back-up plan.

Dragon*Con, the annual fantasy and sci-fi convention which takes place on Labor Day Weekend, will feature dozens of panels, workshops and contests for the geek in all of us.

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Kids Traveling Solo Now Have Their Very Own Delta Lounge at Atlanta Airport

July 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM | by | Comments (0)

Traveling with children can sometimes be a pain, but Delta’s got a new idea that might make things a little better. For right now it’s only for unaccompanied minors traveling without Mom or Dad, but maybe eventually it’ll be open for all the little ones to swing by and blow off some steam.

The Delta Sky Zone is open in Atlanta on Concourses, B, C, and E, and it’s available to those little ones connecting all by themselves—or with a little help from Delta employees. Inside, kids have access to brand new furniture to bounce all over, XBOX 360s, and unfortunately some kind of educational materials. We’re thinking that there’s got to be some soda and chips thrown in their too, or at least a little tap water. Video games during a layover would definitely make us thirsty!

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How To See The Atlanta Zoo's New Baby Orangutan

April 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Remy is a Sumatran orangutan who was born at the Fort Worth Zoo four months ago, and whose mom unfortunately became too ill to care for him. Looking for a solution, zookeepers fostered him out to the Atlanta Zoo, home of more orangutans than any other zoological exhibit in the United States.

There he was adopted by Madu, "one of the nation’s best surrogate mothers," and the two were removed from public viewing so they could bond. Now they've been moved back on exhibit, and visitors are lining up to get a glimpse of the pair.

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Atlanta Airport is Lucky Enough to Have the World's Best Coca-Cola Machine

February 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM | by | Comments (2)

On a recent journey through the wonder that is the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, we stumbled upon the coolest thing in sugary sweet beverage technology, and best of all it was right next to Chick-fil-A. Coca-Cola calls it the fountain of the future, and we have to agree.

We witnessed the world’s fanciest soda machine just outside of gate A11, but apparently there’s another one to play with near gate D30. It’s called the Coca-Cola Freestyle and it is kind of like a computerized soda fountain complete with touch screen controls. It offers way more options than the typical soda machine, as options include about 100 different varieties of Coke products.

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Want to Marry a Flight Attendant? Flying 7 Million Miles on Delta May Help

January 25, 2011 at 12:41 PM | by | Comments (0)

Flight Attendants. There's just something about them, male or female, that makes them super attractive, even if they aren't all that attractive. Maybe it's the salacious gossip from the stewardess days or the fact that they travel way more than you do and that jealousy makes you hot. Whatever it is, marrying one kinda sounds like a fun idea, right? Well, if you're game to get it on, you better start booking some flights because one man who's proven it can be done—marrying a flight attendant you met on a flight, that is—has flown 7 million miles on Delta.

That's a very interesting little story we noted got lost in Delta's big 70th Anniversary in Atlanta celebration at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Friday. The frequent flyer, Ed Robinette, is Delta's most frequent passenger. According to GlobalAtlanta.com, he began his jet-setting ways before the airline launched their SkyMiles program in 1981. Robinette was an executive for Panasonic, but though he doesn't have that title anymore, he still managed to fly to Tokyo 9 times last year (plus other routes).

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Rebook Your Cancelled Atlanta Flights with Twitter or Delta's Updated iPhone App

January 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM | by | Comments (0)

Winter weather strikes again! At least this time, it's not New York or Boston that are suffering flight cancellations up the wazoo; it's Atlanta...and a couple other southern US cities. Last night, several inches of snow and a ton of sleet rained down on the area, leaving roads (and airport runways) treacherous for the time being. The crappy weather continues today, and as a result, both Delta and AirTran have cancelled all flights from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport today.

Expect most other airlines' ATL flights to be cancelled or severely delayed as well; Delta and AirTran are important though because they use ATL as a hub and thus have more passengers sleeping on the floor or in airport motels tonight in the hopes that the weather will calm, the runways will be plowed and salted, and their flights will fly tomorrow.

If you are affected by the 1,500+ flight cancellations, then remember that rebooking over the phone may be the hardest way. Here's your other options on Delta:

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