Masters 2025: Map Reveals Exodus of Non-public Jets From Augusta Airport

Rory McIlroy turned the sixth golfer to finish a profession grand slam after profitable the Masters in a tense playoff on Sunday — however he wasn’t the one individual in Augusta underneath a number of strain.

Throughout the weeklong match, the often sleepy Augusta Regional Airport offers with practically 5 occasions as many planes as traditional.

On the day of McIlroy’s victory, flight tracker Radar Atlas used open-source information to trace 229 personal jets departing Augusta. Utilizing information from ADS-B Alternate, their map exhibits an exodus of plane from the Georgian metropolis.

Since final Monday, Radar Atlas has tracked over 2,100 personal flights out and in of the Augusta space — together with virtually 500 on Wednesday.

That is a median of some 300 per day. Lauren Smith, the airport’s assistant director of promoting and public relations, beforehand informed Enterprise Insider that the airport sometimes handles roughly 60 takeoffs and landings a day.

“It is organized chaos to us,” she stated throughout an interview forward of final yr’s match. Smith added that Monday is usually the busiest day as followers depart Augusta following the match’s conclusion.

On Monday, the airport posted on social media that passengers ought to give themselves three hours to make their flights, including, “Mass exodus has begun!”

Augusta Regional Airport didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

Final week, personal jets arrived from as far afield as South Korea and Saudi Arabia — roughly 15-hour flights.

RadarAtlas tracked 1,215 distinctive personal jets utilizing a database compiled by Jack Sweeney, the aviation fanatic who gained fame for his run-ins with Elon Musk.

Final week, planes belonging to Goldman Sachs, Financial institution of America, IBM, and McIlroy had been amongst these to make use of Augusta Regional Airport.

Throughout Masters week, the airport shuts down one among its runways to supply parking house for as much as 300 planes. Round match week, the particular ramp payment varies between $125 and $3,000 per day per arrival, relying on the scale of the plane.

Nevertheless, Augusta Regional Airport additionally has to cope with industrial flights. Airways scheduled a file quantity for this yr’s match.

Delta Air Traces operated as much as 1,900 seats day by day from 9 airports and ran a significant Masters-themed promoting program at Augusta Regional. American Airways served Augusta from 10 cities.

The airport has to rent extra employees for the week, whereas airways additionally ship extra employees to Augusta. An assistant editor at Golf.com shared a picture on X of a Delta gate agent carrying a inexperienced jacket just like the one given to Masters champions.

As soon as all of the personal jets have left and airways return to their common schedules, airport employees have time to breathe — earlier than they’re onto getting ready for subsequent yr.

“As quickly because the Masters ends, we’re already setting objectives and making initiatives and plans for the next Masters,” Smith informed BI in 2024.