Atlanta airport weighs opening a cell phone lot

ATLANTA - Atlanta's airport could become one of the many with cell phone waiting lots.

Cell phone lots let people park and wait for free at a nearby lot, usually for a limited amount of time, until they receive a call from an arriving passenger that they are ready to be picked up curbside.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest, doesn't have such a lot.

General Manager Louis Miller says the airport will study the issue and could make a decision in a few months.

Airports Council International-North America found that 47 of 89 airports it surveyed in 2010 have cell phone lots, including Charleston, Birmingham, Savannah/Hilton Head, New York's John F. Kennedy, Washington-Dulles and Miami.