Website Details Airport Info

<B> Website Details Airport Info</B>

By Rowland Stiteler

Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, besides being one of the nation's largest, now has one of the largest virtual sites, giving Internet savvy travelers the ability to get as much information about the airport as they can get by actually wandering through the terminals.

The Internet site (www.atlanta-airport.com), which has been operating for the past few months, posts the same flight status information that appears on terminal monitors.

"The world will now have the convenience of learning the status and gate assignment of all our flights without having to leave the comfort of their living room or the convenience of their laptop," said airport general manager Angela Gittens.

The Web page also offers a wealth of information that will make the airport more useful to arriving or connecting passengers, such as a listing of restaurants and shops, the location of pay phones and restrooms and airport maps pointing passengers to parking locations.

John Green, president of Information Architecture Inc., a local firm that designed the Website, said the page contains the equivalent of about 250 printed pages of data. Hartsfield set up the Website in response to the large volume of telephone queries for basic information, said airport spokesperson April Majors.