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Originally Posted by xyzzy

Me too -- but how easy would it have been to find the bags in question? That would have taken time and the aircraft needed to move to allow another one to access the gate.

No, No, I wasn't suggesting that the flight be delayed. I was only answering his question. I'm okay with:
1) The plane and you leave with maybe your bags.
2) The plane leaves witout you and you stay with maybe your bags.

Either way it's an equal crap shoot. With perhaps the odds favoring the bags staying due to broken belt. I personally would have flown on and had the bags delivered. Okay that's a complete lie as Mrs. Cigarman would tell you. No one in my family is ALLOWED to check bags. If you can't carry it... It ain't going! :cool:

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Originally Posted by BigPoppaCO

If they couldnt guarantee that the bags would make it on the plane (the pilot admitted as much before we took off) and we decided that we were more comfortable not having the bags out of our posession (meaning us in NY and the bags in AMS), would we have been within our right to get off and make CO rebook our BF tix on a later flight? Just curious...

In the situation mentioned the airline could not guarantee the bags would not be stuck on the flight after you got off for a rebook either. In a general situation the airline never guarantees that checked bags would make it on the plane for any flight.

But every airline has brochures containing in big print "do not put valuables in checked baggage". This tells me that, even if the contract of carriage is in conflict, the airline must continue to endeavor to transport you with due dispatch on your original ticket and fare if you refuse to be separated from your valuables and all the overhead bins are full when the airline finally lets you board. The actual outcome of this hypothetical situation may be ultimatedly decided in a courtroom as opposed to in a jetway or in a conference room full of complaint resolution persons at headquarters.