Originally Posted by
FWAAA
If you're on any other RJ, big or small, it's planeside valet check (or jetbridge) where it's tagged, placed with the other luggage and returned to you when you arrive at planeside or jetbridge.
Generally true, no doubt, but the bold portion above is not universally true. I have flown to two AA stations (SAF and CLL) where the valet bags are sometimes delivered planeside and sometimes delivered at the baggage claim mixed in with the rest of the checked bags. I have no idea who decides which delivery method to use; I have seen both methods used at both airports.
Thank you for your helpful reply. I will hope that we start getting large E jets on the DFW-ABQ route instead of the CR7s. Could be worse, I guess: could be a 319!
Thanks,
saunders111