AA sent my bag on an earlier flight without me !
Jul 3, 2018, 5:40 pm
#16
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A certain carrier - beginning with D - sends a text message when your bag is loaded onto the plane, sends another message specifying the baggage carousel, and sends another message when the bag has been delivered to the carousel.
Jul 3, 2018, 5:57 pm
#17
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I've had the happen before where I have a long connection time between flights, and my bag gets sent on an earlier flight. It would be nice if there was a text notification stating that my bag is on an earlier flight. That way when I get to baggage claim I can grab my bag and be on my way instead of thinking my bag didn't make it.
Jul 3, 2018, 6:18 pm
#18
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Had it happen with US Airways. I had a longer layover where there was a flight headed to my destination about an hour before my flight. Oddly enough, one bag went on the earlier flight and was waiting for me in the baggage claim office while my other bag was on the same flight as me. Go figure.
Jul 3, 2018, 7:33 pm
#19
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I experienced it about a dozen times on DFW-AUS after international arrival into DFW (meaning a long layover). I later got a habit to look at the baggage center before waiting my bags on the carousel. I'm not complaining for bags traveling before me. It's MUCH better than them coming after me.
Jul 3, 2018, 7:50 pm
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Jul 3, 2018, 8:25 pm
#21
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If you think about it for a minute before posting a rant, you will see that this makes complete sense. You cannot choose to get on a different flight from your bag, because you may have checked an exploding bag. But if they do it, you have no control over it, and you cannot incorporate it into your plans.
Sometimes D misses the last bag scan, which is actually a good thing because on many of their tickets you get more miles from the '20 minutes or 2500 miles' service recovery automated form than you do for the flight proper.
Jul 3, 2018, 10:49 pm
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100% bag match is not required for domestic flights because all bags are security screened.
Even for international flights, as long as it’s the airline choosing to put the bag on a separate flight from you, and not you choosing to separate yourself from your bag it’s okay.
Even for international flights, as long as it’s the airline choosing to put the bag on a separate flight from you, and not you choosing to separate yourself from your bag it’s okay.
Jul 4, 2018, 12:10 am
#23
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And Rush-bags are only good to be loaded, if the pax was seperated from his luggage involuntarily.
Internationally the "No pax, no bags"-rule is strictly enforced, as the TSA does not fully trust foreign CTX-machines/operators.
Jul 4, 2018, 7:04 am
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I had this happen to me recently flying PIT-DFW-SJC. After an early arrival into DFW, I walked past the gate of an earlier SJC flight which was delayed. Didn't think much about it until I received a text message from AA saying that my bags were loaded on the earlier flight and waiting at the baggage service counter. I could have at least stand by for the delayed flight but I didn't think the bags would make it and I wasn't in a rush. Anyway, I was glad that I didn't have to 1) wait for half an hour for the bags, and 2) pull them out of the carousel (it was a relocation trip so I had quite a bit of luggage).
Jul 4, 2018, 7:19 am
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The fact that they do stuff like this is what makes it uber annoying when they will not let you get on an earlier flight if you checked a bag. No matter the reason. A few weeks ago I was flying ABQ-DFW and the late afternoon flight was delayed due to DFW ground stop. We finally started to board around 6:30pm, almost the same time that the later ABQ-DFW flight was boarding at the next gate over. They got the preboarders on, then all of the sudden the cancelation notices started popping up on everyone's phones. I immediately made a beeline for the other gate to get in line, as they had reaccommodated most of us on the 5:55am flight the next morning. I was about 6th in line as they were hurriedly trying to get seats assignments to as many people as possible before T-10. This was annoying in and of itself, because there were even more seats available, but they hard stopped at T-10. By the way, 15 min after this later flight departed, they canceled the 5:55am flight for the next morning and then moved people to the 6:30pm flight for the next evening. So you strand 150 people for 24 hours, have seats to accommodate some of them, but you won't SLIGHTLY delay the last flight out for the night to try and accommodate as many as possible!? Typical airline behavior.
Anyways, back to my story. I get to the front of the line to get on that flight and she tells me I am out of luck because I checked a bag. I was like, you guys fly bags out on different flights all the time. Earlier. Later. Whatever. She didn't want to hear it, and basically told me to go fly a kite. Myself and a few other ended up booking a SWA flight that left a few hours later. No way was I staying in ABQ for another 24 hours.
Anyways, back to my story. I get to the front of the line to get on that flight and she tells me I am out of luck because I checked a bag. I was like, you guys fly bags out on different flights all the time. Earlier. Later. Whatever. She didn't want to hear it, and basically told me to go fly a kite. Myself and a few other ended up booking a SWA flight that left a few hours later. No way was I staying in ABQ for another 24 hours.
Jul 4, 2018, 9:24 am
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Happens all the time and non issue. You just have to track it to see where it's at. Would you rather have it sent on a flight later than yours?
Jul 4, 2018, 9:53 am
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The fact that they do stuff like this is what makes it uber annoying when they will not let you get on an earlier flight if you checked a bag. No matter the reason. A few weeks ago I was flying ABQ-DFW and the late afternoon flight was delayed due to DFW ground stop. We finally started to board around 6:30pm, almost the same time that the later ABQ-DFW flight was boarding at the next gate over. They got the preboarders on, then all of the sudden the cancelation notices started popping up on everyone's phones. I immediately made a beeline for the other gate to get in line, as they had reaccommodated most of us on the 5:55am flight the next morning. I was about 6th in line as they were hurriedly trying to get seats assignments to as many people as possible before T-10. This was annoying in and of itself, because there were even more seats available, but they hard stopped at T-10. By the way, 15 min after this later flight departed, they canceled the 5:55am flight for the next morning and then moved people to the 6:30pm flight for the next evening. So you strand 150 people for 24 hours, have seats to accommodate some of them, but you won't SLIGHTLY delay the last flight out for the night to try and accommodate as many as possible!? Typical airline behavior.
Anyways, back to my story. I get to the front of the line to get on that flight and she tells me I am out of luck because I checked a bag. I was like, you guys fly bags out on different flights all the time. Earlier. Later. Whatever. She didn't want to hear it, and basically told me to go fly a kite. Myself and a few other ended up booking a SWA flight that left a few hours later. No way was I staying in ABQ for another 24 hours.
Jul 4, 2018, 10:46 am
#29
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If you think about it for a minute before posting a rant, you will see that this makes complete sense. You cannot choose to get on a different flight from your bag, because you may have checked an exploding bag. But if they do it, you have no control over it, and you cannot incorporate it into your plans.
Did you not hear the term "suicide bomber"? Did you know there are people who don't mind if they have an exploding bag on their flight, cause they don't care if they will die?
Jul 4, 2018, 10:56 am
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Ah, and this is why security is stupid. If even Flyertalks think this makes sense, this is why security just sucks.
Did you not hear the term "suicide bomber"? Did you know there are people who don't mind if they have an exploding bag on their flight, cause they don't care if they will die?
Did you not hear the term "suicide bomber"? Did you know there are people who don't mind if they have an exploding bag on their flight, cause they don't care if they will die?