Was at ATL airport today. Terminal/Concourse D was entirely shut down for at least 30 minutes (could be more, IDK).

US Customs and Border fed cops. Entirely blocked off Concourse/Terminal D. Shit, the tram that goes between terminals entirely bypassed D, straight to E. When we got out the tram, even the pilots and airline stewards were like "WTF, D WAS SKIPPED".

There were suits from what I assume was the airport, US Customs cops, airport security cops, all telling folks to wait in another terminal until more info came out. TOTAL BLACKOUT, nobody of authority knew what was going on or could talk about it.

Weird. Definitely had to be more than one drunk asshole on a plane talking shit. That's not close down a whole terminal in a major hub level stuff

>>2685299

Unfortunately I do not. There had to be thousands of other passengers, flight stewards, pilots, who experienced the same, though. When I went to terminal E to wait, there was a huge mob of folks waiting to hear that they could go to Terminal D.

I called my mom to tell her how weird it was. By the time I was off the phone with her, the US border cops were gone, the folks were telling us D was open.

When I got to my gate (same gate in D as it was supposed to be), my plane was swapped out. A plane about twice as big as the original (my flight had about 50% occupancy, there were open seats everywhere, this is definitely not my experience in air travel nowadays). Pilot even mentioned that they swapped planes out, said something about mechanics issues.

I felt safe the whole time but it was definitely weird.

>>2685330

My theories are:

1. high profile arrest (keep everyone away)

2. terror threat

3. something else that required a whole terminal to be totally secured