Originally Posted by
Often1
OP - This may be hard to accept, but the best thing you can do is to wait. Calling will not change anything and there is nobody who is going to go looking for the bag. When you call in, someone is simply looking at a display and telling you some version of the same thing.
If you are being told the truth and the bag did make it to ATL, it will either turn up or it will not. If its baggage tag is still attached all the better. Hopefully you have put a personal tag on the bag and inside so that you can be matched if the baggage tag has fallen off.
OP - this is very sound advice. Last September my wife and I checked in six bags for a DOH(QR)BRU(BA)LHR itinerary. One bag didn’t make it to LHR. It eventually turned up 33 days later, still intact (QR were able to categorically confirm the missing bag had been loaded at DOH, it transpired the bag had gone astray in BRU).
Lessons we learned for the future included, a) a personal tag on the inside (as recommended above) and, b) have a photograph of each bag on your mobile phone.
Dont give up hope yet.