Was on AC116 YVR-YYZ today. Luggage came out about 1 hour 10 minutes after gate arrival. No surprise there. What was surprising was that our luggage (3 pieces) was tagged priority in YVR (am *G) and I watched it go down the belt with the tags, but all three tags were removed (you could see where the baggage tags had been pulled open by pulling them out) and our bags didn't come out with the priority bags (which did arrive in about 20 minutes, which was good).

I am confused how this could happen. I thought maybe there was quality control somewhere in the process and when the unloading crew realized they had missed a bunch of priority tagged bags they pulled them off so it wouldn't affect something they're being measured on. But then I remembered this was AC and laughed and laughed.

Why on earth would someone remove priority tags like that. I've had lots of times that priority bags just didn't work at all, especially in YYZ, so I'm just pleasantly surprised when they do. But to remove them was a bit shady, I thought.

Thought others might like to comment if it's happened to them recently or something.