Posted on 07/02/2022 9:55:43 PM PDT by libh8er
How to get your baggage to come out first at the luggage carousel
Of course, this will never be a perfect science, but according to airport ramp worker and gate agent Thomas Lo Sciuto, there is one way to increase your odds of bag coming out first. He writes, “your best option is to be one of the last passengers to check your bags. Bags will always be loaded front to back on the bag carts, so if you check in last your bags will be in the last bag cart, which will make them the last on the aircraft, and the first off the aircraft at your destination.”
If being one of the last passengers to check into your flight causes you more agita than waiting around the luggage carousel, however, there is an alternative. According to Lo Sciuto, you can also bring your bag through security and then ask your flight’s desk agent if they can check your luggage at the gate. This will achieve the same effect of getting your bag an ideal placement on the undercarriage, thus making it first to hit the conveyer belt at your destination.
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Your’s is probably the most appropiate comedy video posted here in quite a while. Kudos!!
Not true. I know from experience.
As a lifetime zillion mile (well, multiple million miles) flyer, I get the special person yellow tag on my Checked bags, and my bags, along with others similarly tagged ARE the first.
#privilegedflyer
I’ve got news, the Industrial Engineers came up with that to describe warehouse inventory models before we had ubiquitous electronic computing.
On a semi-related note - I once had a professor for a major tech university on my rec tennis team. An Industrial Engineering professor.
I visited his office, and he had a bunch of Cisco literature. I asked him about it. He was doing research for them that was queuing theory related. Widgets or packets, the mathematics is the same or similar.
The best way is to either do it all with a carry on, or have status and get the yellow “hi-priority” bag tag applied at check in. Of course, that latter generally requires you fly a fair amount.
When it was time to load up the plane, you had to remember to check the "early bag" cart. That didn't always happen, especially when we got busy or were short-handed. Even when we checked, it was easy to miss a bag or two especially if bags for other flights were piled on top of them.
It was routine in those days to miss baggage in this manner. Once discovered, we'd have to re-tag them and get them on the next flight headed to that destination.
That was forty years ago but I doubt the technology on handling baggage has changed that much. It's still mostly a manual process and bags checked early probably still get shunted off to the side.
Yes... and if you have 1 or 2 connecting flights, all bets are off.
Yes, I kind of realized this myself when I flew to CA earlier this year. And I don’t fly much. And my kid didn’t even want to check a bag, but it was a wedding, we had dresses! And shoes!
Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. As long as they don’t lose/mis-direct your luggage.
Get off the plane, thank G-d for getting you there safely, go have a smoke, and then grab your bag(s). It’s just not a big deal.
Hate to fly, but air travel is a miraculous thing. To be able to span a continent in a few hours? Come on man! That’s amazing.
G-d bless America!
Pocket knife - Don’t leave home without it. So it goes in my CHECKED bag.
Only alternatives are to mail it to myself - both ways.
Or buy one at my destination.
Ergo, I must check a bag on most flights.
Don’t check or plan to check any luggage. What you can’t handcarry you should just ship/mail a day or two ahead of time. Fedex can do it and there are many luggage shipping services, or just box it up and use UPS - your stuuff gets there same day or before you and no schlepping of luggage around. That is the way I have done it my last couple of trips.
Unfortunately, they have a weird thing about firearms in carry-on bags.
Why You Should Check Your Luggage As Late As Possible
This gives the thieves less time to rummage thru your luggage.
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