The Atlanta Metropolitan area is home to 5,522,942 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States. The city of Atlanta is the main cultural and economic center and the capital of the state of Georgia. Atlanta is known for the important role that it played in the Civil war and many people come to visit to the city to see the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site as well as the many other attractions. These include the Georgia Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the world, and Centennial Olympic Park constructed for the 1996 Olympics. Atlanta’s economy is quite diverse and has the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. It is also home to the headquarters of many TV programming companies and film studios making it a center for the entertainment industry. Atlanta started out in its early days as a railroad town. Since then it has continued to grow into the primary transportation hub for the Southeastern United States today.

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has been the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998. It is located just 7 miles from Atlanta’s central business district and accommodates more than 260,000 passengers daily. The nearest reliever airport for Hartsfield-Jackson is Fulton County Airport, also known as the Charlie Brown Field. It is located 6 nautical miles from central Atlanta and handles much of the general aviation traffic that would otherwise go to Hartsfield-Jackson. However, the second busiest airport serving the Atlanta metropolitan area is actually Dekalb-Peachtree Airport. This airport is the seventh busiest general aviation (non-airline) airport in the country with an average of 554 flights per day. Dekalb-Peachtree is a popular choice among travelers flying on private jets because the facilities are family friendly and air traffic is minimal compared to the busy Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.