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....

Best video I’ve seen so far!

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.

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. ❤❤❤❤

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Thank you, buddy.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ty sm great video!!! Any idea, where british airways lands from heathrow airport?

Is the customs area quite large then? Seems to be quite well structured to allow alot of people to pass through quickly... how long do you think an international resident would take to pass through immigration to baggage claim?

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

hey Brian, great video! is there a way to get to international baggage claim to meet someone. I will be arriving in the A gates concourse

Wonder why they just don't use the custom facilities in terminal E for any inbound international flights and save people from that really long walk? Everything still looks set up and ready to go.

Do I need to claim and recheck my bags if I'm incoming from mexico and outgoing to Amsterdam? Thanks 🙂

It looked like you were the only international flight arriving in E. What did you do to anger them into making you walk that far?

So is it possible for someone to avoid customs by branching to baggage claim in the walkway to custooms

I just recently booked a flight for my Filipina fiancee who is coming from the Philippines and she will be landing at this airport for customs on a k1 visa. I went through this same airport back in July of 2019 after visiting her in the Philippines. Things do look different now. I am hoping to possibly book a same day round trip from Roanoke VA to this airport and back in the same day because I want to try and meet her in the airport after she gets through customs. To be honest I'm concerned that she might get lost after she gets through customs trying to find her luggage and the fact she has to recheck it to her last flight and find the gate. This is a very big airport. I may go and meet her that day so I can fly back with her. And the walk to customs looks like it will take longer than 20 minutes to get to. She will have a little over 6 hours layover so that will help her some if I'm not able to fly over to Hartsfield and meet her. I just don't want her to get lost.

What about international departures? Is 1.5 hours long enough from plane to plane?

That long connecting cave from E-F was a terrible idea. They could just let passengers do their custom process at the same concourse they got off at

Thank you, this is a great video! I have a question, after i go through customs, even if i have a connecting flight with the same airline, will i still have to go to baggage claims, recheck the bag, and go through tsa again? Sorry, im a newbie to flying lol

Do they check your baggage in customs at the Atlanta Airport

E to T is about a 1 mile walk. And the subway does go out at times. E to F walking is bad enough! That said, ATL is one of the easiest airports in the world to navigate.

Boy they weren't kidding about a long walk holy cow

I haven't gone through immigration in ATL for a decade plus. I could swear you went down a level to immigration then through customs. Then yesterday coming from BOG from E36 I went up a level then back down to to level 2... when did re-design this happen?

OMG, coming from KLAS I will have 55 minutes to reach my international connection!

What about F for arrival after qatar airways pls?

where did you fly from?

Lots of stinky poo toilets you pass by in the airport on the way to the main concourse.

Helpp! We are flying from europe to ATL airport and then we have a connecting flight to Cancun. We never been in ATL airport. We have 2 hours between our flights🥴 I saw in your videoa then we have to go through costums. 🥲Do you have some tips of information for us?