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I have to concur with the previous assessment of ATL - Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is a black hole. Yes, I'm badmouthing my home airport because it is everything a modern airport should not be - dark, dank and a relic from the 70s. Every time I visit some other destination like Montreal, SeaTac, Detroit, O'Hare (and even Midway and Reagan Internation) I sigh in dismay. How did we get stuck with an airport reminscent of a waiting room in Purgatory? ATL - where the the staff is surly (so much for southern hospitality), your flights are never on time, and you get to check your luggage in customs TWICE!
Yes, they're currently laying down travertine tile in the foyers and they've erected dinosaur bones in the atrium. Heck, Delta just got new digs and they were under bankruptcy protection! But what's the old southern saying? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
I know ATL is limited to what it can do considering its status as one of the busiest airports around; but couldn't they at least pop out a few skylights?
