Originally Posted by
TheJayHatch
Quite. Just for clarity, I don’t care for the tags, but priority luggage I do - and would say I’ve almost always been first out. That may be luck, but the question was more whether priority luggage (insofar it actually exists) is available for BAEC Y, or - as suggested here - for no-one? My presumption based on (what I think are) advertised benefits is the barcode should be priority. And I was told it isn’t - which seems to be the case!
Well you have seen the AKE bins wizzing around the tarmac at T5? T5 is nearly 100% containerised. On an A319 there may be just one or two AKEs, depending on loads. They get filled up from a series of belts from the warehouse more or less automatically, get taken as a pair to the aircraft. Upon arrival in whereever, they are off loaded together and then unloaded on to the carousel belt, usually together too. Clearly whatever is on top or sides of the bin gets out first, but it will be random how it got there. There is no prioritisation in bulk processing,. Priority baggage labels work best in less affluent economies where humans are still cheaper than computerisation or containerisation.