--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Airport Is Now Offering Nonstop Flights to the Kingdom of Wakanda > Sponsored content. 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(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"}}]}] ```