Originally Posted by
Traveloguy
Which unfortunately is a little white lie to pacify passengers. I find that if a tag exists, I have a much higher chance of my bag getting priority treatment. No tag means 100% chance of not being priority, especially if the bag is connecting across several flights or carriers.
BA always says that at LHR, the special area gets special priority... but if that bag falls off the baggage cart enroute to aircraft, how would the baggage handlers know that it came from a F or J class passenger?
On all my flights from LHR to YVR, not once has a bag checked in with 'special' baggage handling but without tags ever come off first and fast...
But if it's tagged from say, CDG connecting in LHR with a "SHORT CONNECTION" and PRIORITY tag, the bags do come off first. Trouble is , not every BA check -in agent is versed enough to actually be motivated enough to tag a F or J class premium passenger's bag.
One of trips from CDG last year in F (C from CDG of course), the agent almost didn't want to tag my bags priority because she didn't have any tags and was too lazy to go get some from the main service BA desk. It was only my insistence that she finally did so... but really, by comparison, to say CX, who'd go out of their way to make sure your bags come up as Priority is alarmingly shocking!