Classic Atlanta Airplane Spotting (December 2001/Post-9/11) Part 1

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Published 2024-04-18
In this installment of my Wayback Wings series, we go to December 2001 and an overnight stay at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel at Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport (ATL). This was the first part of a trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica for a family Christmas trip and we built the stay into our trip down, which made for a great afternoon and evening of spotting from the avgeek-famous hotel adjacent to ATL's north runways.

In this first part, you'll see (and hear) a number of long-since-retired aircraft types, airlines, and liveries. Part 2 is on a separate tape and will follow soon.

Thanks for your support thus far; I'm stunned at the response to the ATL-CMH flight from March 2001, which blew the doors off anything else I've posted so far. I have another dozen or so videos of various lengths and origins which will be added in the coming months as I have time to digitize them.
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Contemporary trip reports:
Delta Connection E175 Comfort+/Northwest Airlines History Center:    • Delta E175 Comfort+ | Columbus (CMH)-...  
Sun Country 737-800: Ooh, that smell.:    • Sun Country=Fun Country? | Sun Countr...  
Delta 737-900 in 73J Configuration:    • Anything to Fear on Halloween? | 73J ...  
Delta 737-900 in 73R Configuration:    • Does “R” Stand for “Run”? | Delta 73R...  
Oft-Delayed Flight Wreaks Havoc:    • And Now, We Have To Run | Delta Boein...  
The Delta Cardio Program:    • The Delta Cardio Program | Delta 737-...  
Better Seat Life Hack:    • Quirky Planes = Better Seats | Delta ...  
The Actual Florida-Georgia Line:    • The REAL Florida Georgia Line | Delta...  
Storm Chasing from the Sky Part 1:    • A Middle Seat That Doesn't Suck? | De...  
Storm Chasing Part 2:    • Storm Chasing from the Sky | Delta 73...  

Wayback Wings:
March 2001 ATL-CMH:    • A Vlog From The Time Before Vlogs | D...  
A Blast From The Past:    • A Safety Demo Found Nowhere Else on T...  
Delta 757 takeoff from Washington-Reagan Runway 33:    • Washington Reagan (DCA) Runway 33 Dep...  

All Comments (21)
  • Awesome to see at this time, Delta had 3 different liveries represented on their aircraft. Great spotting in ATL.
  • @mlcochran78
    This is a GEM! Thank you so much for bringing my old airport back to life
  • It’s weird seeing how Atlanta airport has evolved over the years, once a diverse range of aircraft but now it’s mainly 737’s and Airbus aircraft are more common.
  • @Keystone75
    16:49 N551NW is still flying for Delta. The pilots declared an emergency for a "flap disagree" while en route from SAV to ATL on the morning of 4/18/24.
  • @KingstonAddict
    Love this!! I love that Northwest 757 in the Bowling Shoe Livery
  • @mlcochran78
    Less than 1yr later I was a flight attendant for ASA, working on the Brasilias, ATRs & very early CRJs
  • @jwaviation16
    Amazing to see footage from ATL when aviation was at its finest! Thank you so much for posting 🙌
  • @ROMEROME1990
    I really miss air Jamaica 🇯🇲, thank you for this video. I remember my final time flying on air Jamaica 🇯🇲 ; pre-9/11 (late March 2001), on the Kingston (KIN) 🇯🇲 to Grand Cayman (GCM) 🇰🇾 leg, on board their Airbus 320, before they ceased operations in 2011. Memories.
  • @ILoveQazaqstan
    was TSA already in place during this immediate post-9/11 era or were they doing a sorta transition security from the former private companies to TSA? Curious about the 90s-00s era of aviation in general
  • @mlcochran78
    Damn! They're not getting RNAV headings after departure cuz they didn't exist yet!
  • @JaredGPW
    I flew on N913DL 5 days before she was retired. She was the 2nd oldest MD-88 in the fleet. I had to get one last day of flying on the MD-88 in before they were retired. Flew KIAD - KATL on N913DL in the morning and back on N916DL that evening.
  • @JoeDFWAviation
    How do you know what flights are what? FR24 wasn’t a thing yet was it?
  • @med7870
    It's honestly wierd that airlines that had like nothing to do with 9/11 shut down because of it but the airlines invovled in it are still standing.