Sortation System at ATL
 

Where is the hub of the "Sortation System" at ATL? I've got a message on the Delta app that my wife's bag is "en route from Sortation System" to her flight (leaving from the F concourse this afternoon)?

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?....

Like a refrigerator?

^^. 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.

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.

^ yes, now that you mention it; I also remember a couple trips where not knowing about it -- even hustling at full speed to and from the train -- would have meant missing a connection (late arrival from the west coast into the high B gates, last evening departure to VPS from the CRJ/ATR holding pen at the end of C)