Originally Posted by rapopoda
You must be lucky. I've never had consistent results. I've had my bags come off in the first few, and I've waited around until the bitter end. CO, VS, BA, NW. All the same
It also depends on the airport. Best priority handling I've witnessed is SQ in SIN, but then again SQ is pretty good overall. Come to AMS and it's almost random again. My CO experience at EWR has been generally OK, except for the one time when they lost my bag in AMS on the way to EWR.