Originally Posted by
flatlander
It is cool but it definitely isn't reliable. For example yesterday we (2 passengers) checked 2 bags each HNL-LAX-LHR-DUB-LCY. The AA tracking said 4 offloaded from (the inbound) aircraft at LAX and 3 loaded onto (the outbound) aircraft at LAX. Yet all 4 arrived in LCY at the same time, and BA in LHR said the bags had been seen by them in LHR when I asked, so they travelled together.
The info is nice but definitely take it with a grain of salt. I took up a lot of a checkin agent's time at DUB trying to insist that one of my bags was likely not going to arrive and asking her to get it chased up, unnecessarily (she was as much help as she could be, to her credit).
Last Monday 3/4 showed loaded onto my PHL-PHX flight. I tweeted AA from on the plane and they got back to me and said that all bags had been loaded. When I landed at PHX, all 4 bags showed unloaded and then loaded on next flight.
It was great that the AA twitter group was able to check and confirm in-flight.