How your bags get delayed/lost/trashed at YVR

[YVR Cockroach]

Originally Posted by countmookle

AC is ridiculous. On Saturday night at YYZ, I waited no less than 50 minutes for my bags to show up on the carousel. A new record.

Quite normal at YVR even in the summer during normal ops and off a small (Jazz) flight.

[threepoint]

Originally Posted by PropWasher

There is a method to this supposed madness.

Bags will be left for someone who knows what to do with them. Inbound or outbound? US pre pre-clear or US post pre-clear? In-transit? Sequencing...?

Construction worker meant well... but moved bags from obvious place, rather than the other way around.

I can't envision how the construction worker did anything less than admirable by removing the bag from inevitably being run over. Remember, they were in the roadway itself. Any baggage-handling employee will be able to tell by the tags where the bag is intended to go and how it is meant to get there. They can thus take said bag to an appropriate place.

Originally Posted by yvrcritic

or perhaps they were westjet bags or another airline.

Again, that's easy to tell at a glance. I'm sure any carrier would appreciate a helping hand in the form of an AC employee taking the bag to the nearest appropriate person to reroute.

[yvrcritic]

do you really expect someone working for AC to go out of their way to deliver a WJ bag to the other side of the airport during their flight or on their break? i'm afraid that competition doesn't usually work that way. some would help, some wouldn't. i think the only way that all airport employees would be working together is if it was safety related.

[why fly]

A bag handler is paid $10 per hour. His boss will tell him what to do

[ramp roscoe]

When I did my stint in baggage I would routinely pickup baggage with AC tags or AC contract aircraft such as Lufthansa, Cathay etc. If it was Westjet or another carrier they are handled by either Swissport, Globeground or AirNorth. Those usually stay where they drop until the person responsible picks them just as an AC bag would not bothered with by a contract ground handler.


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