Originally Posted by yyznomad
Speaking of which, landing at YUL the other day using skycheck my bag wasn't waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. Worried that someone may have mistakenly left with my bag since I was one of the last to deplane, I looked around and finally asked the baggage dude where the heck my bag was... after explaining that I understood that I didn't check my bag and for sure it was sky checked, he walks back towards the side of the DH1 and takes a bag from there which happened to be mine... he thought it was one of the pilot's!
Yeah, I once skychecked a hiking backpack at YUL (sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't -- sometimes the checkin agent says that it's too big) and it stayed on the tarmac. Fortunately a pilot went and retrieved it for me. Whew!