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Old Nov 2, 2017 | 6:05 pm
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Originally Posted by Starblazer
It's huge. Without tracking your bag internally, nobody can really tell you where it is. The bag may have went into cold storage... or to a sorter.... or maybe it's in a tug doing laps around the F concorse?....
^^. It could be in any of the bag rooms (landside, B, C, E, or F), cold bag storage, at a bag point, or being tugged tail-to-tail depending on where you checked it, where you're connecting from, or the length of your connection. ATL has over 30 miles of baggage belts that process over 60k bags a day.

Fun fact: any of you remember Eastern's old tunnel between the north ends of B and C? It still exists and now contains the belt that connects B/C bag rooms.
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