Off Track: Inside the Command Center of the World’s Largest Airline
From the Wired Magazine website. Maximum Maintenance Control
In the first installment of our series Flight Mode, we visit Delta mission control, where 300 people watch thousands of planes to keep everything running smoothly.
The world’s busiest airport isn’t in the world’s biggest city. It’s in Atlanta, a great southern city that by dint of accident and capitalism sits, metaphorically speaking, at the center of the map.
More than 2,500 flights carrying 250,000 passengers pass through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International each day, headed to or coming from 225 cities around the world. Delta, which carries more passengers than any other airline, accounts for 75 percent of that traffic.
In the first episode of WIRED’s Flight Mode, we take you into Delta’s “mission control,” where nearly 300 people track every one of the 5,000 aircraft in the airline’s fleet.
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