Priority Bright Orange Bag Tags: Your Alaska Experiences
Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 pm
#106
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: SoCal,
Programs: BAEC Gold, AA PPro
Posts: 771
My experience is just the opposite. AA especially has stepped up their game. And pre COVID I rarely had issue with BA. It’s all a YMMV thing, but I almost always check my bag. So elite delivery is something that I watch carefully and it’s a benefit that’s important to me. 3 transcons on AS this year, I carried on in J. But I’d be ticked if I had checked and it came out last.
Sep 16, 2021, 9:35 am
#107
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: PDX
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100K
Posts: 2,329
Just got in to SFO from PDX (mainline). Stopped in the lounge to get my first peek, grabbed a latte, walked down to baggage claim and saw my orange tagged bag come out as the first one on the carousel.
Sep 16, 2021, 9:35 am
#108
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AA EP, Hilton Diamond, Hertz Platinum
Posts: 636
My experience is just the opposite. AA especially has stepped up their game. And pre COVID I rarely had issue with BA. It’s all a YMMV thing, but I almost always check my bag. So elite delivery is something that I watch carefully and it’s a benefit that’s important to me. 3 transcons on AS this year, I carried on in J. But I’d be ticked if I had checked and it came out last.
Sep 16, 2021, 11:52 am
#109
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: SoCal,
Programs: BAEC Gold, AA PPro
Posts: 771
I’ll bite. You know this because you currently hold or have held a position with a OW carrier? If not, this is just a YMMV issue and your experience with priority bag delivery is poor. My experience is quite good, so at least on my flights, everyone involved has actually cared about it.
Sep 18, 2021, 9:02 am
#110
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AA EP, Hilton Diamond, Hertz Platinum
Posts: 636
I’ll bite. You know this because you currently hold or have held a position with a OW carrier? If not, this is just a YMMV issue and your experience with priority bag delivery is poor. My experience is quite good, so at least on my flights, everyone involved has actually cared about it.
Plus, if it was such a priority for one world, they wouldn’t be giving British Airways a pass on it right now.
Sep 18, 2021, 12:56 pm
#111
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: SoCal,
Programs: BAEC Gold, AA PPro
Posts: 771
One doesn't need to have held a position with a one world carrier to know one world as an organization doesn’t care about priority baggage delivery. All it takes is frequent flying over a number of years on different OW carriers to see it’s not a priority.
Plus, if it was such a priority for one world, they wouldn’t be giving British Airways a pass on it right now.
Plus, if it was such a priority for one world, they wouldn’t be giving British Airways a pass on it right now.
Nov 8, 2021, 11:17 am
#112
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: SAN
Programs: AS Mileage Plan 100k, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 991
Welp, on SAN-SJC today not only did the bags come out wayyy before the 20 minute guarantee, but there were 2 bags with orange tags (mine being one) that came out head of the pack with a distinct pause before the others started rolling.
It was the first time I had seen that happen, it was nice!
It was the first time I had seen that happen, it was nice!
Nov 8, 2021, 11:30 am
#113
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: DL PM 1.57MM; AS MVPG 100K
Posts: 21,359
SEA-PDX-OGG last month, our bags were in the middle to back of the second batch on the belt (but still at ~18 min)
OGG-SEA they were two of the first three to show up (~12 min)
OGG-SEA they were two of the first three to show up (~12 min)
Nov 19, 2021, 2:15 pm
#114
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: BOS & SFO
Programs: Alaska MVP Gold
Posts: 675
Are you supposed to get one of these tags as a MVP or is it only a Gold/75K benefit? I asked about it dropping off a bag in the priority line this morning at SFO but was told I wasn't priority so no tag. Bag still came out fairly early at BOS (and the flight made me Gold) so whatever, but just curious.
Nov 19, 2021, 8:00 pm
#115
Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100K
Posts: 81
My experience when traveling to Atlanta tells me the priority tags are pretty much ignored there. Two trips with bags since July, and they were among the last to appear on the belt. I’m on a flight to ATL as I type this, so we’ll see if it’s three strikes, yer out.
Seattle, however, has been just the opposite; always among the first ten bags out.
Seattle, however, has been just the opposite; always among the first ten bags out.
Nov 20, 2021, 1:56 pm
#116
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: SFO
Programs: AS — views are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
Posts: 162
Nov 20, 2021, 2:15 pm
#118
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Over the Bay Bridge, CA
Programs: Jumbo mas
Posts: 38,602
The one time I've checked a bag as an AS OW elite, the AS agent didn't put a special tag on it. Fortunately, the good folks at EK, while the bag was in transit, put an F tag on the bag. That's service!
Nov 20, 2021, 6:09 pm
#119
Join Date: Sep 2001
Programs: Alaska Tanzanite 100K
Posts: 3,857
what really matters is the IATA Priority "code" in the bar code on each bag. That's what the sortation system/scanners primarily use. Its just a matter if the person loading/offloading the bags cares enough to segregate. Same with dumping at bag claim - the guy/gal/they at the bottom of the belt loader tossing in the bag cart doesn't give two sh*ts and separate priority from non-priority, then its game over.