Last night landing at YYC there was a person scanning all the Bar codes of luggage arriving at the carrousel. I thought they must be checking to see if the priority tags work.

Someone must have given a heads up about the audit to the baggage handles. Mine was 4th one off. All the early luggage was tagged. Never happened before and not optimistic will happen again

Can't see how that would work -- surely whether the priority tags work depends largely on how the bags were loaded, not on how they were unloaded. Unless they take all the bags off, stick them in the corner and grab the priority ones to put on the carousel first.

Did your bags come out any faster or were all the other bags just delayed until they found yours?

I see this fairly frequently. My guess is they're looking for a connecting bag that may have been missed in the initial scan and sort they do as the bags come off the plane. Though it might also just be an audit to make sure the right bags come out the chute.

^ if they're checking for connecting bags that missed the initial scan. I've seen too many instances coming off of my ex-US flights and see connecting bags at YYZ that should have been through-checked onto the pax's int'l flight. In fact, I even told an AC ground staff in one instance, and it was shrugged off, and they went back to doing whatever they were doing.

Then, when my bag got "lost" when connecting through YYZ from ORD-CDG, I realized what likely happened.

they do this at YVR for almost every flight. it's actually quite funny to watch as they are never wearing Air Canada attire, and once there was a customer who had arrived after a long week on the road pretty much tell the guy off so that he could grab his luggage and be on his way.

I think there's multiple reasons for it:

1) Timing - they are trying to get their times down between the plane getting to the gate and customers getting their luggage

2) Fraud - I can only imagine how many people claim luggage as stolen when i really isn't

3) Timing - trying to keep track of priority tags and when they show up

I've seen it done manually at YOW where a girl with a clip board and a stop watch was recording everything....

Hopefully they get the info we've been telling them for years - it takes WAY TOO LONG!

I've seen them audit at YYZ ... tyassine I think is right on all counts.

But clearly, rampies going in to work walk by the carosels (especially in YYC), and so know what's going on when

Have seen this before at YVR and YUL, just figured it was someting with a pax connection thing.