--- title: Atlanta Airport Now Offering Nonstop Flights to Wakanda description: Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is now offering nonstop flights to Black Panther's Kingdom of Wakanda. canonical: https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-21T19:50:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:47.659Z og:title: This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to Wakanda og:description: Wakanda forever og:url: https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1880e4e29b13dd83/6989285fcf40a80c3cc4b696/black-panther-wakanda-flights-atlanta-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'Black Panther' Seoul Premiere - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to Wakanda twitter:description: Wakanda forever twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1880e4e29b13dd83/6989285fcf40a80c3cc4b696/black-panther-wakanda-flights-atlanta-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to the Kingdom of Wakanda  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 21, 2018 7:50 PM UTC  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 05: Actor Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, and Chadwick Boseman(Left to Right) arrive at the red carpet of the Seoul premiere of 'Black Panther' on February 5, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images for Disney) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 05: Actor Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, and Chadwick Boseman(Left to Right) arrive at the red carpet of the Seoul premiere of 'Black Panther' on February 5, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images for Disney)Han Myung-Gu—Getty Images for Disney  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 21, 2018 7:50 PM UTC Marvel’s deservedly much-hyped [_Black Panther_](http://time.com/black-panther/)opened to [rave reviews](http://time.com/5165022/black-panther-opening-weekend/) and a whopping [$242 million](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-atlanta-airport-offering-flights-wakanda-1086714) during its debut over President’s day weekend and it appears that the influence of the film is taking flight — literally. In honor of the film, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is now offering nonstop flights to the [Kingdom of Wakanda](http://time.com/5163612/black-panther-costume-designer/), the fictional African country that King T’Challa hails from in _Black Panther_. The airport tweeted out a photo on Tuesday of a sign for a flight destined for Wakanda that night along with the caption “The bags are packed” and a hashtag of the film’s noted catchphrase, “Wakanda Forever.” > [](https://twitter.com/ATLairport/status/965736386618904581) The Atlanta airport’s homage to Wakanda got a special shoutout from one of _Black Panther’_s stars, [Lupita Nyong’o](http://time.com/4990561/lupita-nyongo-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment/), who took to her Twitter to inquire about the in-flight entertainment, something the airport happily responded to. > [](https://twitter.com/Lupita%5FNyongo/status/966059043524550656) > [](https://twitter.com/ATLairport/status/966067856327761926) > [](https://twitter.com/ATLairport/status/966074780016365575) This hilarious nod to Wakanda from the Atlanta airport isn’t unfounded either, especially when you consider that much of the movie was [filmed on location in metro Atlanta.](http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/black-panther-five-things-know-about-the-movie-ties-metro-atlanta/bG3oisouqehC9SSRmvECwK/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/"},"headline":"This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to the Kingdom of Wakanda","datePublished":"2018-02-21T19:50:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:47.659Z","description":"Wakanda forever","url":"https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1880e4e29b13dd83/6989285fcf40a80c3cc4b696/black-panther-wakanda-flights-atlanta-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1880e4e29b13dd83/6989285fcf40a80c3cc4b696/black-panther-wakanda-flights-atlanta-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"'Black Panther' Seoul Premiere - Red Carpet","caption":"'Black Panther' Seoul Premiere - Red Carpet","creditText":"Han Myung-Gu—Getty Images for Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5168405/atlanta-airport-flights-to-wakanda/","name":"This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to the Kingdom of Wakanda"}}]}] ```