Hartsfield Airport Expects 1.3 million

The nation's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International, is expecting 1.3 million people to pass through its door's this Labor Day weekend. That is an estimated six percent increase in traffic from last year’s Labor Day holiday.

The Transportation Security Administration has sent extra workers; every security lane in the airport is open.

Airport official, Herschel Grangent, told GPB news that the goal is for travelers to have to wait no more than 30-minutes in line, even during peak hours.

"That’s the goal: to keep everybody happy, keep everybody moving and getting to their planes on time," Grangent said.

Almost 250,000 people are expected at the airport per day. The heaviest travel is expected to be on Friday.

Columbus Airport seeking new carriers, businesses

Columbus Metropolitan Airport wants to revitalize regularly scheduled air traffic, and boost business. They're trying to get American Airlines back, after a decade's absence.

Currently, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which serves Delta Air Lines, is the only regularly-scheduled carrier servicing Columbus, with just a few flights a day.

The airport commission is trying to revitalize the flagging facility and is weighing going ahead with comprehensive plan to bring long-term lease businesses to the facility.

Don Cook, one of five airport commissioners, who currently chairs the group, says they are aiming high, and have a good business case:

“We don't get a conversation with United, we don't get a conversation with Allegiance [Air], we don't get a conversation with US Airways or American Airlines if we can't build that business case... the facts say we can support three to four airlines.”

Cook says that they are seeking commercial development of the area, and are weighing several development proposals.

He says they are in intensive talks with American Airlines, and - if talks go according to their plan – expects flights by year's end.

“From June to July would be the decision-making process for American Airlines, and the first flight – if all the numbers go well – would land in December 2007.”