Originally Posted by
sinoflyer
Whenever I come back to LAX from a transpac trip via SFO, I head directly to the baggage service area to see if my checked bag had already arrived on an earlier SFO-LAX flight.
It's annoying to stand at the carousel for the 20 minutes (sometimes double that) it takes for your bag not to show up when they could quite easily have sent you a text or voicemail message saying it made the earlier (illegal) connection. Or even page you. I've been paged several times when my bag didn't make it at all. Why couldn't they do the same for "pre-arrived" baggage? (United, are you listening?)
Originally Posted by
channa
I've been alerted from UA by text when my bag didn't make it and/or came on a different flight.
My parents one flew YVR-SFO-LAX had got text messages while at SFO telling them their bag had flown earlier and to go straight to the baggage office instead of waiting. They had a 3-hour connection (due to fare class/pricing) and the key here was that the earlier, 1-hour connection also departed the same SFO gate, so you have a bag from YVR being routed to the correct gate where a flight to the "correct" destination was still being loaded.
Their experience is in contrast to mine EWR-OSL-CPH where the entire body of UA pax didn't get their bags at CPH (well, until the next SK OSL-CPH flight arrived). Reason was during our 1.5-hour connection, our SK flight was already assigned a gate so the bags were routed there. And then there was a gate change and someone forgot those bags. In my case, SK had no idea where the bags went.
Originally Posted by
RobOnLI
It would be so much easier to track your bag either right before the flight takes off or during the flight if you have WiFi on the plane (United app is free over WiFi on the plane).
And when I returned, I booked myself a
second-last row right window on EWR-LAX. (Final leg home, one bag to wait, no need to rush so the back is less crowded.) Then I realized there you can see my very bag loaded up the ramp. I had a 70-min I-to-D connection so the bag wasn't loaded earlier than me.