Atlanta's airport should be renamed after Pres. Jimmy Carter

[Wanderlust988]

It would be a HUGE honor and well deserving. He's the ONLY president ever from the state of Georgia. Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world. Hartsfield-Jackson have had a good run and they were simply mayors. Just like Las Vegas renamed their airport after Harry Reid, and Louisville's airport after Muhammed Ali, the same honor should be bestowed on the honorable Jimmy Carter.

Carter has done so much for the world. I can't even list it all. The mans deserves a high honor.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. There's already a Jimmy Carter Airport in Georgia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_Regional_Airport

I don't think you could have 2 with the same name that close, and that one may not feel like giving up the name

[2naSalit]

2. +1

[DFW]

3. I agree, but I would rename the regional airport

Jimmy Carter was larger than life, a model former president the likes of which we have never had.

I would rename Hartsfield-Jackson as Jimmy Carter International Airport, but keep the FAA "ATL" designation, since people fly to Atlanta as their destination.

It is also long past due to remove Ronald Reagan's name from Washington National Airport and return it to the name it was known by (it is still known as "National Airport" or DCA by people who live there, or are originally from there, like me) before pissing off the locals by naming it after the one president who especially hated Washington, and made a name for himself by firing the air traffic controllers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Practically, you might have to have a period in which neither used the name

so that you don't get mix-ups with buying tickets to "Jimmy Carter Airport (Georgia)".

[DFW]

5. That's probably wise and practical

I am more familiar with cties with multiple airports (DC, NY, Dallas), whereas Atlanta doesn't have a significant local alternative.

I'm sure pilots use the call letters anyway. The locals use a combination. In DC, it's "National (or DCA), Dulles, or BWI." In New York, it's "La Guardia, JFK, or Newark," and in Dallas, it's "DFW or Love Field."

I wonder what the people of Cininnati call their airport, since it's in Covington, Kentucky (airport code CVG). Maybe just "the airport?"

[DET]

11. Ain't That The Truth

“It is also long past due to remove Ronald Reagan's name from Washington National Airport…” That move was insulting and infuriating. I refuse to call it Reagan National.

[Wanderlust988]

8. He's definitely more deserving of something more than a regional airport

That seems like a really small airport too. What a pity.

[kacekwl]

6. Absolutely. Should have

been done decades ago.

[Seasider]

7. If Carter was a Republican, it would've done already.

[CatWoman]

9. Naval Academy renames building after Jimmy Carter

ANNAPOLIS, MD — A building at the U.S. Naval Academy that had been named after a leader in the Confederate Navy was renamed Friday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who graduated from the academy in 1946.

The decision to rename the engineering building in Annapolis was made after a commission mandated by Congress determined several military assets across all branches of the service had to be renamed because of Confederate ties.

The building that had been called Maury Hall was built and named in the early 1900s after Matthew Fontaine Maury, a naval officer and scientist who joined the Confederates.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/naval-academy-renames-building-after-jimmy-carter/VJQMCLEFMJGD3C76ILJHIKR2UY/

[Rhiannon12866]

10. K&R! Great Idea! He deserves the honor

And even I've been through that airport, flying from here in Albany, New York, to North Carolina...