How Airports Serve Georgia
Mark Pearson
This map displays the major airports in and around Georgia. It shows how the state can divided according to which airport is the closest as the crow flies.
The flags are a sample of 500 census tracts (of 1957 tracts total) within the state.
Some census tract flags may look like they are colored for one airport's region but are actually in another airport's region. The census tract flags are colored with which airport they are closest to as the crow flies along the surface of the earth (the Haversine distance formula). The region boundaries that are displayed on map were computed assuming assuming the earth is flat. (The lines that divide regions are a Voronoi diagram, and I couldn't find any algorithm that calculate the lines on a sphere such as the earth.) In short, although a few census tracts may look like they're mislabeled near a boundary, it's actually the boundary that is slightly wrong.
For more information, see the full report:
http://www.mark-pearson.com/airport-distances/

ATL serves 6,631,812 people in GA
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

SAV serves 702,682 people in GA
Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport

TLH serves 642,695 people in GA
Tallahassee Regional Airport

AGS serves 634,807 people in GA
Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field

CHA serves 525,159 people in GA
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field)

JAX serves 277,203 people in GA
Jacksonville International Airport

GSP serves 133,239 people in GA
Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (Roger Milliken Field)

MGM serves 95,039 people in GA
Montgomery Regional Airport (Dannelly Field)

TYS serves 28,741 people in GA
McGhee Tyson Airport

AVL serves 16,276 people in GA
Asheville Regional Airport

dividing line

4,575 people
closest airport: ATL

4,435 people
closest airport: ATL

5,172 people
closest airport: SAV

closest airport: ATL

closest airport: CHA

closest airport: AGS

closest airport: SAV

closest airport: TLH

closest airport: GSP

204 people

closest airport: AVL

2 people

closest airport: MGM

closest airport: JAX

closest airport: TYS

977 people