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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 11:15 am
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notyouraveragejt
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Thumbs down On and off topic rant.

Originally Posted by dmitzel
Last week flying FNT-DTW-IAD I was EUA'ed on the latter leg into WAS. While the FNT CSA "priority-tagged" my checked bag, it still doesn't matter. I got to the claim area at Dulles and started counting. The first priority-tagged bag that came off the belt was #21, the second (mine) was #44.

I stopped counting after I grabbed my garment bag, but I imagine their were still several elites and FC pax still waiting after I left as FC was full inbound.
Anymore I could careless if they put that little yellow piece of paper on my luggage or not. The baggage handlers could careless about it. I once had a Paid F ticket to hawaii and when I got to cleveland with my friend it was raining. When I landed in HNL and got to the hotel I finally found out that all my clothes were still wet because CLE left them out in the rain. This last time I flew honestly showed me that they didn't care. I was flying TOL - DTW - AMS - WAW. Well I got to TOL in enough time to check my luggage get my seat changed to 1C and go upstairs and have a drink in the bar before the flight to DTW. (before anyone ask why not just drive up to DTW its 12 a day cheaper in parking and a heck lot easier enviroment.) Anyways my flight 3155 was scheduled to leave at 1:25 and arrive in DTW at 2:17pm. It was initially delayed until 140pm thats fine. I would have asked the gate agent what time they were expecting the flight since any later would have made my connection in DTW very tight and didn't want to lose my WBC seat. But at TOL there is no gate agent until one is need. The CSR stay at the Ticket counter until needed at gate level. AT 2pm still no plane and I hear over the loud speaker will Mr. Notyouraveragejt please call XXX from the nearest white phone. I call the number they give me and tell me first that the plane will not arrive until 3pm. She tells me that she has looked and there are no more WBC seats on todays flights to AMS. Even if there were the only one I could take instead of flight 40 is 68 because of my connection to WAW and my GF is meeting me there and alot of stuff where I couldn't call her until she was already in WAW to pick me up that I was going to be late. Anyways they give me the option to leave the airport drive up to DTW with no compenstation for the parking difference because it was a weather delay. Thats fine policy is policy. I leave the airport at 210pm and amazingly as if I were speading or something I make it in under an hour to DTW. By this time its 310pm I pull into long term parking and spend about 15 minutes looking for a parking spot until I find one. I grab all my luggage that the TOL agents gave me back that I have checked. I run as fast as I could to the garage counter to encounter CSR that were leaving for the day and would not help me get a new boarding pass and check my luggage because I had lost the orginial boarding pass somewhere in this whole shuffle. Once a new very HELPFUL, at the time it seemed, CSR came to help me saw I had a WBC ticket and called down to whom ever and asked if she could get a bag on flight 40 and once she got off the phone she said that they could. ^ at this point I am thinking awsome everything worked out. Before I leave the garage counter I double check with that CSR that its still leaving out of gate A28 again I am thinking ok everything will be ok. So I get to TSA and they waste more precious time because by this time its 25 minutes until departure. Id rant about how horrible TSA was but thats a whole other rant. So I am running proboly looking like an idiot down to gate A28 once I get to the gate I see the board says amsterdam and the gate door is closed. So I am now freaking out because I think I miss the flight then a second later I notice its for later flight to AMS. So I run to the first board I can find and see that Its now listed at gate A66 complete other side of airport. So I start running the mile to other end of airport and THANKFULLY THEY ARE STILL BOARDING. ^ So I get on the plane everything there was fine. Land in AMS a half hour early at 520am local time and wait now over 3 hours for my connecting flight to WAW. So I just chill in the airport wait for the flight and finally comes time to get on the KLM flight of course weather and other delays on KLM part so now they have an EXTRA 2 hours to get my bag on this flight. Ok now we finally leave and land in WAW I get through passport controll and head to the baggage claim to come to find my suprise that there is no luggage in WAW for me. So I go thru customs meet my GF over 2 hours later than should have been and head to lost luggage office where in WAW theres only one person for all the airlines in WAW. And we finally find the office there is no one there. This I can not blame on KLM or NW because it is run by Lot Ground Service. They file the baggage report and tell me it will be there tommorrow. Thankfully at least they delivered on there promise.

Ok again sorry for the long rant just my way of saying nobody really cares if there is that little yellow piece of paper on my baggage tag say priority or not.
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