Originally Posted by
Flyingwasabi
how is your experience with claiming checked bags from UA?
from my experience, UA is the slowest. Like Alaska have a 30 minutes guarantee, however usually UA bags haven’t even started to come out yet.
also it seems the priority tag means NOTHING. I’ve seen too many times the none priority bags come out first and the priority bags only come out after like 4 batches of non-priority bags...
what’s your experience?
I think you're gonna get varied answers, how this helps you, I don't know? It's like saying "Flying Delta sucks, what's your experience" on their fb page. They get great comments about on-time, nice seats, etc and then they get horrible comments like delta delayed me four hours, hung up on me on the phone, etc.
I've checked bags like 3 times. I am usually always one of the first 12 people off the aircraft.
1 of those times, i waited 15 min ish.
1 of those times, I waited like 25 minutes.
1 of those times, the bag beat me.
Priority is a hit or miss. I find that priority tags are prioritized in areas where UA has a presence. At an outstation (think island destinations), the bags come out randomly, priority mixed. I will say, in the times that I've checked with AA, UA has been better both in terms of time to receive the bags and priority tag prioritization.