yohanson

I flew into MCO a month ago and although my golf clubs were waiting in oversized before the first bag dropped, my bag was the last to come off and my companion's was 6th from last. All the kettles were merrily on their way before I could get my rental car.

TheBisch

Yeah, that's how they come out at CHA too....

MSPeconomist

IME baggage at MSP has gotten much worse since the merger. The priority tagged bags seldom come out first. Moreover, the assignment of flights to belts makes no sense: one can see as many as a half dozen unused DL belts while five big flights at the same time are assigned to the same belt, with the resulting mess as a crowd five-deep fights to see/grab their bags. Either this--the simple step of assigning flights to belts--isn't well managed or only a few belts are in working order, which is another sign of bad management. It should be simple to fix this problem after so much time.

CJKatl

The yellow tags have, for the most part, worked well on my flights when I check bags. The exception for me was always RDU. After this happened for the third time in a row, over about six weeks, I went to the luggage office and complained. There were several SP passengers standing around waiting for our bags to come out, and they were the last bags. The man at the luggage office apologized and immediately made a call. Since then, the yellow bags seem to come out first.

In short - if they don't come out first, let the employees know. They seem to be receptive to correcting the situation in the future.

adam1080

it really does depend on the airport and luck. I've had my bag be the very first one off a super full plane in JFK. (It really was kinda cool, there were TONS of people waiting for their bags and my bag came rolling out with no other bags behind it. I got congratulations and scowls.(We had been waiting quite some time)). I also have had to wait for 50 other bags. Not to mention my bag has been delayed on multiple occasions, once when the connection planes were right next to each other, literally wingtip to wingtip.

mjcewl1284

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I fly CX on some intra-Asian routes and it is more "It works most of the time, very rarely does it not work."

yohanson

In a random, unscientific poll in The Terrorists Succeeded Administration security line today at MSP, it was unanimous that the priority tags mean your bag gets dropped last at MSP.

jsgoldbe

I don't know about the conditions pre/post merger, but why do you have to walk to the other side of the airport to claim bags when you get in at the C/D/E/F terminals at MSP? There are perfectly good baggage claim belts on the north side that one has to walk past to get to the working claims at the south end.

CALeeIII

I can report that my PRIORITY TAGGED BAG was FIRST OFF.... unfortunately it was BEFORE the overweight CRJ took off.

Now, explain to me the good business logic of removing a PRIORITY TAGGED bag from a flight while at least 5 NON-Priority but HEAVY tagged bags are left on board if there is a weight and balance issue?

That was Sunday....it's Tuesday afternoon and all the website says is...
Status: We have located this bag and are scheduling delivery.
Please check back again for the delivery date and time of your bag.

At this point, not so sure chasing Platinum yet another year is looking like a "Priority" to me either.

branman1986

50% of the time, it works everytime...

grapkoski

At DCA (arriving from TPA), my luggage comes off first and it is never tagged (Sample size is about 5 trips since the flights launched). Either a baggage handler has a crush on me or they really don't care.

Overall, I would recommend that Delta send a note to all ramp employees reminding them of baggage priority. One day, I will have those tags.....

CruzinAway

We just took two flights to SFO and JFK and our bags were off within a minute or two at the most. The yellow tags appeared to be working because all of the bags that were first off had yellow tags.

cityboy340

BWI works every time for me, usually first 5 or so, but they take forever to get the bags on the belt. SNA, my bag is usually last. However, I have never been to an American airport where the bags took less than about 30 minutes to arrive. I recently took SQ F to NRT and by the time I got through immigration which took exactly 1 minute, a bunch of bags were already on the belt and the ANA workers walking around pulled my bag off the belt for me and verified it was mine with the tag. Oh to have customer service in the US...

EastcoasterWestcoaster

Almost 100% of the time, whether on Delta or KLM or AF, whether domestic or international, my "priority baggage"-tagged suitcase is one of the last off to hit the luggage carousel. Most recently: Dec 27th, ATL->LAX... all of the coach luggage came out first, then we waited a bit, then the "Priority" luggage eventually came out. Total wait time at the carousel was about 30-40 minutes. I think "Priority Luggage" is one of those Delta myths, just like the "Dedicated SkyTraveler security lanes." Apparently they exist, and Delta touts them as being benefits of being Medallion or of flying Biz Elite, but I have yet to encounter them in real life. It's just one of those things that I don't even get wound up about anymore.

Kirby

Sabai

Another anecdote: I flew IAD/SFO 12/25 on UA, and my *A Priority bag was among the first half dozen at the claim area. Returning SFO-ATL-IAD 12/28 on DL with the Priority tag, my bag was the very first one out the shoot at Dulles. Sort of a draw, but kudos to both carriers.