ATL – International Traveler Arriving at gate in Concourse E and Walking to Main Customs (long walk)

I want to thank very much for this video for something so simple yet stressing if you are not familiar with this particular airport knowing that you have limited time to connecting flights! Kudos....

Lord help us! We are in our late 70's and would definitely need wheel chair transportation for that long walk. Thanks for the video, despite my hundreds of trips through ATL, I have never flown International, and been in that area of the airport terminals. I didn't know that these halls even existed.

Thank you so much for this video, I'll be coming through atl to Philly from cabo an wasnt sure how customs work there, it's been a long time since I came through there on my way back from st Lucia an at that time it was very hectic...thanks again for the video

Thanks for all your videos they are really helpful... I’ll finally be flying out of Atlanta airport for the first time next Monday

Thank you for this video. What a very long walk after a long flight.

I'm flying my first international flight next Saturday (going to St. Lucia!), and this video is very helpful in showing what returning home might be like. I appreciate your videos very much, since I watched your videos a couple years ago when I was flying to my hometown for a wedding and got lost the first time I flew out ATL. Thank you!

jesus atlanta airport is huge, should be traveling in a month. thankyou for the video, i feel more at ease now!

Best video I’ve seen so far!

Gotta love the lady in front with two roller bags when your only to have one. Good catch gate agent.

THANKS very much for a most informative video! we have flown into and out of ATL a hundred times but until now I was wondering how we would land from Paris into concourse E to clear customs.....thanks again!

The E concourse was the old international concourse. Pre COVID the unused passport control you passed would be for connecting passengers while you would still use F if you were ATL bound. Prior to F you would use that upper passport control…then take a long escalator down to the level below the gates to claim baggage…then recheck baggage regardless of if you were local or connecting. If you were local, you would take the plane train back to the main terminal (current domestic terminal) and reclaim bags there.

Very good and informative video, particularly for those who are new comers and unable to manage connecting flights from the domestic carriers like United Airlines etc. ❤❤❤❤

Thanks. I have never explored Concourse F cause I didn't want to end up on the wrong side of customs. I just rode the plane train there and back, which was kind of fun because it's not a straight track like Concourse T,A-E, it goes around a curve at (seemingly) full speed.

Have you been to London, England yet? I'd love to see you do a video on that one from atl airport. I love your videos BTW, very helpful.

I never knew concourse E had that those upper corridors. I’ve only flew international on foreign airlines from Atlanta and they usually deplane in concourse F. I’ve walked between E and F before and always wondered where those escalators came from behind the glass before you made your way downstairs to connect to the international terminal.

I just did this asinine walk for the nth time in my life today and decided to google it. Thank you for the video. I am based out of ATL, and mainly fly DL, so I almost ALWAYS get dumped onto this ridiculous journey. I didn't think to video it like you (THANK YOU!), but did clock it on my Apple Watch, but it was more than your .6 miles until I FINALLY got to the International Terminal Atrium, at about 25 minutes (not stopping at all, and taking the moving walkways). I travel regularly to a lot of third world countries for extended periods (2 or 3 months), so take a non-rolling max size carry on backpack that is NOT light, and my smaller pack. I just can't believe when they designed all this crap that this is the best they could come up with! ABSOLUTELY should be a train or something. BAD PLANNING ATL!!! I bet this pisses off a whole lotta peeps coming into ATL for the first time, it does me each time I have to do it. Great first impression, welcome to ATL! DUH! At least I finally broke down and got Global Entry, so didn't have to wait in the customs line. Then on top of it all, I totally believe in public transportation, so when you are done doing all this idiotic underground walking, then I have to get on a 20+ minute bus ride (depending on traffic) to get from International to the Domestic terminal. So much for the busiest airport, also the stupidest in my book. Just add it to all the other bad things that hurt this city's image. Off of soapbox.

Thanks for video ! Just a question the immigration section when entering the US for the first time is the same as customs ??

Thank you, buddy.

What they should consider doing is to expand the F gates greatly, with the blueprint inspiration from Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), to reduce walking times to immigration by placing immigration counters in the center of the concourse, and then let international arrivals passengers go down to the Plane Train after immigration. Then, in this case, the E gates could be converted back to a domestic concourse.

They really need to consider adding a secure plane train to connect passengers from E to F because that walk is EXTREMELY long after an 8 hour international flight.