Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
FWIW, my experience with priority tagged bags is that it works about 30% of the time.

Most of the time, I have to hang around and wait with the rest of the crowd.
My experience is roughly opposite yours. About 2/3 of the time, I get my bags out with the very first batch. And at DCA, I'm about 75% getting my bag within the first 10% of the bags.