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Old Nov 11, 2009 | 11:54 am
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Originally Posted by Kwaj boy
Frankly, priority tags seem to do little or no good anyway in my experiences. Case in point: this past weekend I flew on a paid business class ticket, with priority tags, and my luggage finally showed up about 15 minutes after bags started coming out. The next day, I flew on a discounted ticket with no priority tags and my luggage arrived in the first 10 bags. Perhaps it depends on the airport but much more often than not I've found that luggage handlers do not try very hard to put priority tagged bags out first.
Agreed. My priority tagged bags (flying CMH-IAH-PHX) ended up on an IAH-DTW flight that left about 90 minutes earlier from the same gate as my PHX flight was scheduled for. Northwest got my bags to PHX 3 days later.

Priority indeed!
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