flyerCO

What? Customs just asks if you have bags. If you say yes, but they didn't arrive they don't hold you. At best they ask if you're sure all bags have been offloaded. Which per your example, is a question you would've asked already to an airline employee. You reply yes, and proceed onward. They don't go track down an airline employee or insist that the bag hold be looked at. Thus why I believe there may have been a misunderstanding. I guess could've also been a new agent. Bottom line, what OP describes isnt how it's supposed to happen.

jphripjah

With checked bags?

RRDD

Of course not. The connection was too tight to risk checking a bag.

cccmm

Update:
I have been keeping an eye on my Delta App and the Baggage Tab.
Mar 12 4:32 am - Bag tagged
Mar 12 9:52 - Bag on plane CDG - MSP
Mar 13 9:51 - Bag on plane CDG - MSP
Mar 13 1:46 Bag in Customs Area

How is there no activity between the two bolded activities?
How did my bag get on my plane initially then not make it to the destination with me? Then suddenly appear on the next day's plane (same schedule)?

I have been on the phone with Delta half the evening and I will hopefully see my bag today at my home.
I have spoken to multiple people from Delta and they all stated something along the lines of the Paris flights causing a lot of mystery in terms of baggage
WHAT IS GOING ON IN PARIS?


Additionally, when I initially got my standby ticket I requested if they would provide any flight vouchers, meal vouchers, lounge access etc. But they denied everything.
The fact that my bag went off the grid for 24 hours I feel is very wrong.
I don't know what I am or should have been entitled to.
Is someone familiar with this?

RRDD

FlyingUnderTheRadar

I find it odd that it was scanned and on the plane on 12th. The question is when was it scanned? I thought they got scanned as they were loaded from the cart and on to the conveyor leading to the baggage hold of the plane. But perhaps it was scanned as it was loaded on to the cart or fell off the conveyor and not found until they moved it. The fact that there was no activity for 24 hours is perhaps not usual but I do not know the scanning process for a bag that missed it's flight.

As for what you are/should be entitled to. As I mentioned previously, focus on getting monies back for the ground transportation and the connecting flight. Lost bags happen, I would not focus on the bag too much but focus on the fact that you waited 8 hours for a flight that you never had any chance of getting on.

e.g. Dear Delta, My bag was mishandled, I understand that happens. Because of that I did not clear customs and bag recheck in a normal amount of time and I missed my connecting flight. I was told that I would have a seat on the next flight which was in 8 hours. However, after waiting 8 hours the gate agent for that flight told me I was given incorrect information and in reality I had no chance of boarding that flight. Had I known that up front I would have not wait 8 hours and immediately taken ground transportation home. Which what I did eventually because the GA was not sure when they could get me on a connecting flight without waiting an additional 16 hours. While I understand bags get mishandled I should not have been promised a seat that I would never get and immediately given alternatives. I am requesting a re-imbursement for the ground transportation and a refund of my final connecting flight.

davetravels

I'm pretty sure that luggage on wide body TATL planes doesn't use the conveyor belt type of loading the way a narrow body plane does. They pre-load them in bins, and are scanned individually into the bin, then the entire bin is scanned when it gets onto the plane. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. Also, I'm not sure if the B763s are done this way or not.

I think that, somehow, the bag was scanned into a bin, and it didn't get put in the bin, so, it was loaded the next day.

Grouchy

AF handles most if not all ground ops @CDG. They might not 'scan' your bag at every step.

Repooc17

What if you didn't have any checked luggage? Customs don't have real-time matching info about passengers and their bags.

I have spent a few years now without checking bags (have had bad luck in the past), no custom agents have asked me to wait even when I just have a book bag on my back coming back to the US.

Aliquot

I book connections like this routinely. I've never missed a connection inside MCT. I would have second thoughts on an airline with an abysmal onetime record, or if arriving on time was absolutely critical.

My question is why did you accept standby if they said there was open seats. Were they blaming you for missing the connection?

AA tried to do this to me once when I missed a BA-AA connection in SJC. I figured it was becasue they were inexperienced handling connections there, but that excuse doesnt work for DL in MSP.

Often1

The bag could easily have been scanned off the aircraft and into the "Customs area" and still not been properly delivered. It could have been elsewhere, fallen off a cart or any number of things. This happens all the time, every day, around the world. Not worth obsessing about a 24-hour bag delay.

As noted, OP may be dut a duty of care under EC 261/2040 and that is about it. DL is prompt in processing these (whether granted or denied). The duty of care includes hotel & reasonable meals. DL might include ground transport but is not required to. If OP had interim expenses because he was without luggage (very unlikely) those are reimburseable under the Montreal Convention,

Submit them as separate items to DL, make certain that the delay items are tagged as being made under EC 261/204, hopefully don't complicate it with baggage issues, and be done with it. Worrying about where the bag went wrong when it was for 24 hours is simply not going to produce anything.

MSPeconomist

flyerCO

It depends what the stuff is and how many days.

Often1

And whether it is international Both France and the US are parties to the Montreal Convention.

ATOBTTR

Part of the "answer" to this may be that bags on widebody flights are not loaded directly onto the plane but rather into the cargo container bins. So the bag is "scanned" onto the plane when it's placed in a container bin, which is well before the bin (and bag) are ever loaded onto the actual plane. My guess at what happened is your bag was either scanned into a container (so it showed "bag on plane") that was then not loaded onto the plane for whatever reason or your bag was scanned as being loaded into a container, but then was not actually loaded into the container that eventually was loaded into the plane.

ETA: Looks like davetravels beat me to it upthread.