Sortation System at ATL
Nov 2, 2017 | 3:37 pm
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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)?
Nov 2, 2017 | 5:38 pm
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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?....
Nov 2, 2017 | 6:04 pm
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Nov 2, 2017 | 6:05 pm
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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.
Nov 3, 2017 | 8:39 am
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^^. 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.
Nov 3, 2017 | 10:13 am
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^ 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)