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Does the City of Atlanta need a second airport? (fox5atlanta.com)

Need?  Maybe.  Gonna get?  No.

I like the 2 airport model better, but probably not as efficient

I like the 2 airport model better, but probably not as efficient

It depends. ORD and MDW work pretty well in Chicago. SW dominates MDW. AA and UA generally dominate ORD.

Ohare has a ton of airlines. 

Midway airlines:

I like flying into Love Field in Dallas

my brother lives a few minutes from DFW, but will drive 45 minutes to Love

thought you weren't a huge fan of rails?

I think intercity high speed rail has major issues in the US, Brightline in Florida might work OK, it's not quite HSR in my view.  MARTA works reasonably well despite the criticism and the fact the full plan was never built ($$$).  They "could" extend MARTA from its ending point to where the second airport would be, in fact, they would have to do it.  Right now, the land is "woods", which is fine with me to leave it be.  

It could make more sense, maybe, to build up an airport in some nearby city, Columbus/Chattanooga/Augusta/Bham.  Or build one designed for changing planes entirely somewhere in the SE.  I dunno if that would be practicable.  It would be in the sticks.  There is a civil aviation airport in Dekalb now that handles private jets, but again, no room around it.  I don't think there is a viable solution really.

Is the international terminal connected to the rest of the terminal by tram? I seem to recall that the east end of Hartsfield was underutilized.

Yes, the "Plane Train" connects everything, but if you aren't throught security, you have to take a bus.  The east end, the International Terminal, USED to be underutilized, but now it's a flat mess, the infrastructure is not available to support it, parking is always full causing a traffic jam, and only two lanes go to the departure level.  I used to love using it when nobody was there, often there would be more gate agents than passengers, no longer.  And it only has 11 gates.

I think folks like us who couldn't travel for about 18 months are making up for lost time, so everything is crunched today, all of it, security lines, rental cars, gate agents, full planes, I'm more amazed it works as well as it does than anything.

We're lucky not to have to drive much, my wife drives to pilates and that is problematic but only 3 miles or so.  I tend to forget how bad traffic is until I have to drive someone to the airport.  It's a $35 taxi fare, more for Lyft/Uber most of the time.  We pay $0.70 per ride on MARTA which takes about 25 minutes to walk to a station and then 25 minutes to the airport.  My wife doesn't care for it, but ....

We take the taxi if we're headed to Europe and have a ton of luggage.

Expanding MARTA would help, but the outer counties don't want it, and it's expensive to build more of course.