Priority Baggage while traveling w/ Family
Dec 22, 2021, 6:15 pm
#1
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Priority Baggage while traveling w/ Family
A couple days ago, my wife, 2 kids and I checked 4 bags for our flight. My wife and I are both AA Platinums. The person who checked our bags said only 2 bags will be labeled priority and our kids 2 bags won’t. I had never run into this before.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Dec 22, 2021, 7:49 pm
#2
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A couple days ago, my wife, 2 kids and I checked 4 bags for our flight. My wife and I are both AA Platinums. The person who checked our bags said only 2 bags will be labeled priority and our kids 2 bags won’t. I had never run into this before.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Dec 22, 2021, 9:02 pm
#3
Join Date: Jan 2021
Posts: 560
A couple days ago, my wife, 2 kids and I checked 4 bags for our flight. My wife and I are both AA Platinums. The person who checked our bags said only 2 bags will be labeled priority and our kids 2 bags won’t. I had never run into this before.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Having bags in your group that aren’t marked priority obviously negates the benefit for ones marked priority because you have to wait for all bags to be collected.
how do I avoid this? I just checked-in through the app and was thinking I would just specify 2 bags each for my wife and myself. However, the app only asked for total bags for the group.
Dec 22, 2021, 9:07 pm
#4
Join Date: May 2008
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Isn't it wonderful when people make up their own rules just because they can? Even more so when doing so gains the airline nothing except ill will from its best customers. Not to mention demonstrating total lack of understanding of the product. Hypothetically if they said that free drinks in MCE were limited to two per elite, so if you have four people on a record with two elites and two non they only get one drink per person, well, there would be some economic rationale. But there, just as noted, having ANY bag for a group of pax traveling together come up late negates the value for the WHOLE party.
Dumbkopf.
Dumbkopf.
Dec 22, 2021, 9:28 pm
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Every Platinum passenger is entitled to two free checked bags. So in this situation, you are each checking two bags and your kids are checking zero; all four should be priority. So the agent's argument makes no sense even if it were true that being on the same reservation as a Platinum elite didn't confer priority bag delivery.