Originally Posted by
yodayoda
I also want to say, YYZ has the world's SLOWEST baggage handlers. It's absolutely retarded that the average wait time for luggage to come off the plane, priority or not is around 30-45 mins. It's inexcusable given it's the world most expensive airport to fly in and out of. Compared that to HKG where my luggage is often waiting for me on the belt after I clear customs.
I agree! Everytime I fly to Toronto domestically arriving in the PM there seems to be a major baggage delay. It takes forever! Even sometimes arriving internationally in the very early AM!
And I've also noticed the Priority Baggage tag doesn't seem to mean much (at any airport). Usually I notice a handful of priority bags come off NEAR the start, then the remainder are sort of mixed in randomly right until the end. Occasionally my bag is amongst those first. Once, recently, my wife and I flew to YYZ from YVR and both our bags were priority tagged (checked in at the same time). Her bag came off nearly first followed by about half the bags from the flight. Then they had a luggage handling equipment failure and, after an hour delay, the remaining bags, including my priority tagged bag, came out!
And while were on the topic of meaningless (but cool-looking) priority items, has anyone else ever gone through the YVR priority security queue and found that people going through the regular queue get through quicker??