JTIDS or anyone
Care to expand on how Brize movers should run an airport
I checked in 5 pax with bags in MIA 2 hours before take off. At ATL there were just 40 minutes between aircraft stopping and the next one backing off and the two aircraft were at opposite ends of the terminal (it's a bit bigger than BZN). We ran the whole way and only just made it and all we had to do was pickup the bags from under our seats and run between gates.
No idea how they managed to extract, sort, and move the bags between holds at Atlanta, but when we got to the final destination our bags were there. And along the UK leg they had managed to separate the domestic and international bags. There were also firearms in the hold on the first two legs.
I've lost count of the number of explanations in this forum about the difficulties in moving bags between airframes and the impossibility of checking in any less than 6 hours before take off. If the civvy world can manage to do it as a matter of course then clearly it can be done. BTW it was three different airframes to boot. MD80, 767, A320.