Charlotte Douglas International · CLT · 6th-busiest on earth · June 2026
Charlotte Airport moved 53.6 million passengers in 2025 through a single terminal. Traffic arrives in concentrated flight banks rather than evenly. Orlando is its busiest route. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.
Charlotte Airport advertising spans from a few cents per play on concourse and gate screens to premium arrivals-hall LED and spectacular digital walls. On Blindspot, Charlotte Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.40, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Charlotte Airport play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the departures bank in the morning, the security and concourse dwell through the day, the arrivals halls when the long-haul flights land.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and passenger flow, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The central Atrium with the iconic white rocking chairs, the spot the whole airport passes.
The high-volume B and C departure concourses.
The D and E concourses with the international gates.
The Concourse A gates and the expanded ticketing lobby.
The baggage claim halls and arrivals level.
The Admirals Club and premium-traveler lounges.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Charlotte Airport's media owners, Intersection (CLT exclusive advertising partner), Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) advertising program, City of Charlotte Aviation Department among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a single gate screen to a full arrivals-hall takeover, Blindspot puts Charlotte Airport's digital out-of-home on one map, each screen priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter airside and landside:
Large-format digital across check-in islands and departures, where every traveler dwells before security.
Captive screens along the security and passport queues, minutes of guaranteed attention per passenger.
Concourse and gate-lounge screens reaching seated, relaxed travelers with long airside dwell.
High-dwell arrivals and baggage-claim placements as passengers wait, the airport's longest captive window.
Boarding-bridge and gate-side panels in the final moment before the flight.
Iconic hall and atrium spectaculars for brand-statement reach across the whole terminal.
Location insights
CLT is a connection machine, American Airlines' second-largest hub, where a single terminal funnels every passenger through one central Atrium with its famous white rocking chairs. Almost everyone is connecting, so the walk between Concourses A to E takes 15 minutes or less and the Atrium is the one spot every traveler passes and pauses. The banks are tight and frequent. Buy the Atrium and the concourse spine, that is where the whole airport converges.
Atrium and check-in fill in the early-morning and late-afternoon banks. Book those hours and your frequency against business travelers climbs for the same budget.
Concourse D/E and the gate holdrooms hold seated, relaxed travelers for 60–90 minutes, long windows where dwell, not rush, does the work.
Concourse A fills as long-haul flights land in banks, high-value international passengers with time to read. Swap creative to match who just arrived.
Location intelligence summary
Charlotte Airport doesn't have a rush hour; it has flight banks. Departures peak in the morning, long-haul arrivals land in waves, and between them travelers dwell for 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. The buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the banks when your audience is captive, skip the dead hours.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch / premium | Atrium + Baggage / Arrivals | All day · long-haul banks |
| Business travelers | Atrium, Concourse D/E | Weekday 6–10 AM · 4–8 PM |
| Long-dwell layovers | Concourse D/E, Concourse A | 10 AM–8 PM |
| International arrivals | Concourse A, Lounges | Aligned to long-haul landing banks |
| Duty-free & retail | Atrium, Concourse D/E | Departures peaks |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Charlotte Airport’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Security-line passengers read in seconds; gate-side travelers dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: connecting business travelers filling Concourse D/E and Concourse A on American Airlines' largest hub, where American and its regional partners carry close to 90 percent of CLT's traffic to more than 170 destinations, and 65 percent of the airport's 53.6 million 2025 passengers connect rather than start their trip in Charlotte (see DOOH for B2B), and international arrivals and freight-linked logistics buyers moving through Lounges and Baggage / Arrivals, as CLT's 43 international routes and 206,000 tons of annual air cargo keep climbing year over year.
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concourse & gate screens | from ~$0.40 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated, connecting-traveler attention |
| Atrium & rocking-chair lobby | $0.55–$6 per play | $6,000–$30,000 typical 4-week presence | every passenger converges here |
| Concourse spine & walkways | $0.50–$4 per play | every connecting passenger | repeat frequency across the concourses |
| Baggage claim & arrivals | $0.50–$5 per play | longest captive dwell | arriving and local Charlotte pax |
| Large-format & spectaculars | $0.65–$7 per play | brand-statement reach | one of the world's busiest hubs |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Charlotte Airport (CLT) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on large-format & spectaculars than on concourse & gate screens), the zone (Central Atrium & rocking-chair lobby carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Atrium test
An hourly burst across the central Atrium through a peak connection bank. Ideal for launches and finance-intent campaigns.
Multi-zone airport push
The Atrium, the B/C concourse spine and baggage claim across peak banks, the workhorse plan for national and B2B brands.
CLT flagship takeover
The Atrium and rocking-chair lobby plus the full concourse spine, a complete takeover of the Queen City's hub.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Intersection (CLT exclusive advertising partner) among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Charlotte Airport handled 53.6 million passengers in 2025. The audience is the reason to buy it: air passengers are captive, comparatively affluent, and hard to reach through most channels, and they spend meaningful time in the terminal with attention to spare between check-in and boarding. Dwell is the asset. Unlike a roadside screen read in two seconds, a gate or arrivals placement gets minutes rather than moments, which is why airport placements hold up for brand and considered-purchase messages rather than short reminders. Because the screens are bookable by the hour, you can match spend to the flight banks that carry your audience instead of paying for a flat month.
Charlotte Airport zones are scored separately for visibility, dwell time and footfall, because the best placement depends on which of those you actually need. Central Atrium & rocking-chair lobby guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. Concourse B & C departures gates holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Concourse D & E international gates gives the longest relaxed attention, with passengers seated and waiting. Each zone shows its own per-play price and live availability, so you can pair a high-reach zone with a high-dwell one rather than guessing at a single best spot. Concourse A & ticketing lobby catches a recently landed audience with phones back out. Admirals Club & premium lounges reaches a higher-spend traveler before the flight. The terminal layout shapes all of this: One terminal with 124 gates spread across five concourses, A through E.
Yes. On Blindspot every Charlotte Airport screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum, so you can buy only the morning departures bank or the long-haul arrivals windows that match your audience.
The airport's media is run primarily by Intersection (CLT exclusive advertising partner); Blindspot aggregates the bookable digital screens onto one map, priced per play.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than the usual airport rate card suggests, because you are buying plays rather than a fixed package. In Charlotte Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Concourse D & E international gates, or a concentrated burst on Central Atrium & rocking-chair lobby and Concourse B & C departures gates through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.40, the arithmetic is visible before you commit. It will not buy a month of an arrivals-hall spectacular, and that is the trade: hourly, per-play buying lets a small budget own the specific windows when the passengers you want are actually in the terminal, instead of thinning the same money across empty overnight hours.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Charlotte Airport by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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