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Old Nov 3, 2017 | 8:39 am
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Originally Posted by Fly_Delta_Jets
^^. 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.
It's gotta be more than 60K bags a day (unless that system is only for local checked bags). DL pushes 200K+ peeps through ATL everyday.
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