Originally Posted by
oklAAhoma
Although that was the case for quite soem time after 9/11, that hasn't been my experience recently. Several times (flying standby, missed connection, etc) my bags have arrived at the destination ahead of me. At lest as far as AA is concerned, pax traveling separately from their luggage no longert seems to be a big concern.
Those are certainly different cases from you checking in bags and then not showing up. In the cases you describe you wouldn't know whether your bags would be with you on the same plane or not.
HTB.