<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by HPTunco:
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Unless they make you wait on the tarmac in the freezing cold, the baggage service is pretty painless.
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They usually don't let you go down the stairs of the plane until the plane-side checked baggage is out of the plane and in the metal cart.