Accessibility guides

Getting through ATL with a disability or reduced mobility: how to arrange wheelchair assistance, accessible parking, quiet rooms and support for hidden disabilities where the airport offers it. The guides explain what to request and when, and the accessibility page lists where the airport places each service.

• Getting around ATL with reduced mobility: Plane Train, security and who helps

  The Plane Train runs 24 hours, but ATL doesn't describe step-free boarding. How TSA screens a wheelchair, where staff stand and what ATL lists.

  • The Plane Train runs overnight, but ATL doesn’t describe boarding
  • The walkway has no distance
  • Airline wheelchair service can take you between gates
  • Security with a wheelchair, scooter or walker
  • MARTA: elevator alerts, reduced fare and paratransit
  • Where to ask for help
• Medical help at Atlanta airport: 911, defibrillators and where to ask

  ATL says to call 911 and look for defibrillator wall signs. It names no clinic or first-aid room. Who to ask, and which shops ATL lists for medicine.

  • Where is the nearest defibrillator?
  • Who can you ask in person?
  • Shops that sell medicine
  • What do you tell TSA at the checkpoint?
• Medication and medical devices at ATL security: what TSA says to do

  TSA allows medically necessary liquids over 3.4 oz if you declare them. How pills, pumps, implants and CPAPs are screened, and TSA Cares' 72-hour ask.

  • Pills and liquids go in a bin, and you say so first
  • Devices on your body are screened by lane
  • Implants, CPAPs and oxygen concentrators have their own steps
  • Ask for a specialist, ideally 72 hours ahead
  • What ATL adds
• Sensory rooms and quiet spaces at ATL: the Concourse F room and who opens it

  ATL lists one sensory room, on Concourse F, with no gate or hours. Delta says a Delta agent can provide access. Chapels, TSA screening and boarding help.

  • Finding the room on Concourse F
  • What Delta says is inside
  • Help before you reach the room
  • At security, a companion can stay with you
  • Two chapels and a prayer room stay open around the clock
  • Paid quiet rooms on Concourse F
• Wheelchair assistance at Atlanta airport: how to arrange it with your airline

  ATL says to ask for a wheelchair when you book or at your airline's ticketing counter. How Delta, American and United handle it, and where help is listed.

  • How each airline takes the request
  • Where help meets you
  • Getting a companion through security
  • If it goes wrong