WillBarrett_68

nice, is this door-open-to-door-open or door-close-to-door-open?

Nupey10

Door closed to door open.
The doors don't stay open long at all LOL maybe 10 seconds. I've never timed it but most times it feels like they are closing right after open.
Now if its peak hours, position yourself near the door to get out quickly. You have to take an elevator up to the gate level and its very difficult getting around people with carry-ons on those narrow elevators

atlocal

Is there any way if I arrive from Cancun (CUN-ATL) I can exit thru domestic terminal? I'm flying Delta and will only have carryon. I have Global Entry too

Aliquot

You mean escalator, right?

UnevenGray

Since you're ending in ATL, if you land at E, you'll be forced to walk to F to go through immigration. I don't think you'll be able to exit through domestic, but you can always take the (landside) shuttle bus to the (landside) domestic side.

flyerCO

No. You'll be dumped out into the international terminal area. There's a bus to domestic side.

If you're concerned with parking, you can checkin with DL at either end, regardless of domestic/international. Just park at international terminal on way out. Uber/Lyft can pickup either side, and multiple (but nowhere close to all) hotels offer pickup/drop-off at both ends.

beachmouse

If you land at E, you go through immigration in the sub-basement of E Concourse before getting vomited up into the main part of E. To exit the airport, you then have to take the plane train between concourses and if you don’t have to reclaim a checked bag at the F international baggage carousels, you have the option of going either direction and can exit at T (domestic North/South Terminal) just as easily as you can at F (International Terminal)

UnevenGray

Wouldn't you have to go back through security? I landed at E about a year ago and had to do the walk to F to go through immigration there.

beachmouse

Yeah it’s the obligatory light security after you drop your baggage back off.

I’m kind of puzzled by ‘I had to walk from E to F to go through immigration’ because while it can be a long walk in the lower reaches of E to get from gate to immigration within that concourse, AFAIK, the only public connection between E and F is the plane train/pedestrian tunnel which is on the other/you’re officially back in the USA’ side of immigration.

Zorak

Background, which basically anyone who's changed concourses at ATL knows, but just so we're on the same page: there is the underground tunnel from T-A-B-C-D-E that houses the Plane Train but also allows you to walk between any of those concourses.

Still fairly widely known (but I think less universally) is that once you reach E though, if you want to continue walking from E to F, you are forced up to concourse level (while the Plane Train continues underground), you walk past the centerpoint area with OFS, then the Sky Club, and the "Corncorde", and there's another escalator down which lets you take an underground tunnel from E-F.

This last tunnel from E-F has a divider, and though I don't recall ever arriving internationally in E myself, I have seen passengers walking on the other side of the divider, which is what I have always understood people to mean when they say they arrived internationally at E but had to walk to F to exit (which I believe is true if you have any checked luggage AND you are terminating in ATL)

beachmouse

My last few international trips have landed at E and we definitely had to clear immigration in the E sub basement before being allowed to walk or take the train to F. Or any other part of the airport whether airside or landside.

SDQBound

A few months ago I arrived from CUN and after exiting the jetbridge, turned to the wrong direction and only realized I was on the way to F when took the escalators down to the tunnel, so immediately turned around and cleared immigration at E (I had a connecting flight so my bags were going to be delivered at E). OP can do the exact same thing, clear immigration followed by TSA at E, and then take the train to T. I would personally take the bus back to T instead of clearing TSA again. The last few times I have arrived at E, security has been a big mess.

When immigration at E was closed due to COVID reduced operations, you had to walk all the way to F and clear immigration there. So definitely can be done both ways when arriving with a carry-on.

flyerCO

I think confusion is because E has no direct exit to landside. If you clear immigration at E you must clear TSA into airport, even if not connecting. Your bags will be dropped on recheck belt, and goto belt claim in F. (Unless this has changed since CV19 hit) (sorta like at old SEA IAF, in satellite, you couldn't just take bags with you, even if SEA was final destination )

SDQBound

This. I can confirm that if you recheck your bag, it will be sent to the F baggage claim so anyone arriving from and International flight who wants to clear TSA in order to exit at the Domestic terminal must know that it will not work with checked bags.

The only place that comes to mind where you can actually take your bags from customs to exit in the People Mover is MCO.

atlocal

So it sounds like it is possible to go to domestic terminal ONLY if you arrive at E?