Originally Posted by
Xray678
I have a friend who is a police Lieutenant in College Park. He has told me many times, do not park your car at any of the hotels near the training center, do not be out after dark, and even before dark don’t be out in that area alone.
It fascinates me that Delta continues to house crew members in these hotels and that we even maintain a training center there.
While I agree, it's an impossible situation.
If you asked 100 people in training, at least 75 would say they want to be next to the training center. What are the alternatives? The area by the convention center? Great, train access, but there is absolutely nothing that way but hotels. There is nothing, and I mean nothing west or south of the airport but econo-box hotels and strip malls.
Fine, how about Buckhead, Midtown or Downtown? Ok, you'll be stuck in traffic from 30 to 45 minutes heading to the hotel about 18 hours of the day. Each of those locations have their own set of problems.
The only real solution is to move training out of ATL, which will never happen. Or you could try to go to training in SLC. The northies had an awesome setup...downtown St. Paul, 20 minutes to training that was outside the normal traffic congestion, but we sold that off as soon as they remodeled it.