By Aaron Karp Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens appointed Ricky Smith, the longtime CEO of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), as the new head of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). Smith has been executive director and CEO of the Maryland Aviation Administration, which runs BWI, since 2015. He will become general manager of ATL on April 2. The hiring of Smith to lead the world’s busiest passenger airport ends a search that started when Dickens dismissed former general manager Balram Bheodari in May 2024 as part of a broader shakeup of the city government, which owns and operates ATL. Jan Lennon, the
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