Priority baggage handling at Sky Team
Apr 17, 2011 | 3:55 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 32
Priority baggage handling at Sky Team
Hi all,
I was reading in both sites, skyteam.com and klm.com, the benefits of flying blue silver (sky team elite) and I'm puzzled.
In klm.com silver benefits we have:
Priority baggage handling
Your check-in baggage will be given a special baggage tag to show that you are a SkyTeam Elite member, so that your bags are delivered quickly to the baggage-claim area.
http://www.klm.com/travel/es_en/flyi...rlines.htm#p11
And by other side at the comparison chart skyteam.com, Elite members have NO priority baggage handling.
http://www.skyteam.com/about/miles/benefits.html
So, what can I expect at the airport?
Thanks!
I was reading in both sites, skyteam.com and klm.com, the benefits of flying blue silver (sky team elite) and I'm puzzled.
In klm.com silver benefits we have:
Priority baggage handling
Your check-in baggage will be given a special baggage tag to show that you are a SkyTeam Elite member, so that your bags are delivered quickly to the baggage-claim area.
http://www.klm.com/travel/es_en/flyi...rlines.htm#p11
And by other side at the comparison chart skyteam.com, Elite members have NO priority baggage handling.
http://www.skyteam.com/about/miles/benefits.html
So, what can I expect at the airport?
Thanks!
Apr 18, 2011 | 7:24 am
#3
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: OSL
Posts: 275
I`ve been refused this several times, both as Silver and Gold (Elite+), when flying both AF/KL from OSL and LAX. The CAs claiming it`s exclusively for Plats (?!). Hopefully just inexperienced CAs... But I wouldn`t bother to mutch, compared to *A the priority handling isn`t very reliable.
Jul 15, 2011 | 1:10 pm
#4
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: AMS, GVA
Programs: Oneworld sapphire (IB)
Posts: 253
I have been given a priority tag every time when flying star alliance.
But it doesn't work anyhow to be honest, in most cases the luggage arrives at random together with the non priority tagged luggage.
But it doesn't work anyhow to be honest, in most cases the luggage arrives at random together with the non priority tagged luggage.
Aug 1, 2011 | 8:29 am
#6
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Europe
Programs: QR Gold
Posts: 115
2/3 of the time it arrives almost as last with the tag, maybe because I'm flying mostly with connecting flights.
Aug 9, 2011 | 5:14 am
#9
Join Date: May 2009
Location: MAD/LAX/MNL/PIT
Programs: DL DM/1MM, PR, TG, UA, CX (Asia Miles), BT, AY, AA
Posts: 967
I got the priority tags when flying KL and CZ, and my bags were one of the first to get onto the carousel. Strangely enough, RO offers priority baggage handling to SkyTeam elites, but my bag hasn't been tagged on both my flights with them.