[Baggage] Does Priority Mean Anything in 2016?
May 18, 2016, 4:44 am
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[Baggage] Does Priority Mean Anything in 2016?
Monday night (16th May) arrival at T5 (A) in CE.
Bags from flight took ages to appear on carousel. Once they did - and to most CE passengers' astonishment - all business/'priority' bags arrived last. Most passengers had collected theirs and had left.
Most of those sat around me on the plane were still waiting for their bags. Took me a good hour and a bit from dissembarking to collecitng my bag. They were all properly tagged as 'priority'.
Seriously though, does 'priority' mean anything these days in terms of baggage?
Bags from flight took ages to appear on carousel. Once they did - and to most CE passengers' astonishment - all business/'priority' bags arrived last. Most passengers had collected theirs and had left.
Most of those sat around me on the plane were still waiting for their bags. Took me a good hour and a bit from dissembarking to collecitng my bag. They were all properly tagged as 'priority'.
Seriously though, does 'priority' mean anything these days in terms of baggage?
May 18, 2016, 4:55 am
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May 18, 2016, 4:57 am
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Priority baggage is not a CE benefit. In fact, BA is the only oneworld carrier that does not provide priority baggage handling for status passengers: https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/oneworld-benefits
May 18, 2016, 5:13 am
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Priority baggage is not a CE benefit. In fact, BA is the only oneworld carrier that does not provide priority baggage handling for status passengers: https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/oneworld-benefits
May 18, 2016, 5:17 am
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May 18, 2016, 5:21 am
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Hence the common observation here: the primary purpose of the priority tags is to stop the passenger from asking for a priority tag.
May 18, 2016, 5:27 am
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I was amazed when flying on JAL internationally and domestically a few months ago how quick and efficient the priority baggage delivery was. It's a shame it's not offered on BA, and i'd rather they didn't attach pointless priority tags.
It didn't work on AA for me a few weeks ago either.
It didn't work on AA for me a few weeks ago either.
May 18, 2016, 9:04 am
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Last weekend we flew from MAD to LCY in CE. I was in 2D so had a good view of them loading the luggage. I was amazed to see that they carefully checked each suitcase and pulled to one side those with the priority tags. These were loaded separately and at LCY were first on the belt. I was suitably impressed.
May 18, 2016, 9:12 am
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I had two CE flights last week, one lot tagged with orange priority, and the other (on the return) tagged with yellow first priority tags (odd as was in CE).
Both times my bags were the first to arrive (with the other priority tagged cases).
Both times my bags were the first to arrive (with the other priority tagged cases).
May 18, 2016, 9:16 am
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