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Rochester, NY
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2011
And you're assuming the tag is still on the bag. As mentioned by previous posters, what if the tag is gone? (PITA)?
You've pointed out the one combination of weak spots that, when aligned, could lead in a bad result for someone not informing DME of their arrival. Worst case scenario here, your bag hits the carousel, and is stolen. (But, this could happen to DME users who DO ride the bus. You bag is missed by the yellow tag people, it spins on carousel, it gets stolen. So, losing a yellow tag is potentially bad for all users of DME, not just those who skip the bus ride.). Best case, it goes around in circles like so many other bags you see at airports and the luggage office comes out to pull it and set it to the side.
That's up to the person booking. But I believe they would make a contact attempt based on whatever method they have. If its email, and you're not of the Blackberry persuasion where you don't "check" email, it checks you, there might be a delay in getting the message. But whatever method you give the airline is the same method that they would use to report cancelled flights, etc, so it's reasonable to assume that the method would be one that the person would have some decent contact with.The airline might try to contact you, but how? Is the cell number of every flier on file? An email address? Would you be checking the email?
In this case, yes, you most likely go back to the airport. But you have a car, so you do this. PITA? Yes, recovered luggage, and crisis averted....yes.Regardless, let's say you call the airline and they say "yes, the bag is here, it came on a later plane". There's no yellow tag on it (it got ripped off somewhere) so it couldn't go to DME. Since you didn't file a claim, do you have to go back to the airport (PITA)?
So, IF the follow events occur simultaneously; You yellow tag, you don't get on the bus, the yellow tag comes off...then, your luggage never arrives, you call DME, then call the airline, they have it with no yellow tag, you drive back to get it. We've successfully narrowed down the situations that can occur when not informing DME that you took another method of transport to Disney.