DME Luggage Route

[Edd]

Today I spoke with the Assistant Airport Director (if anyone wants his name PM me and I will forward it to you so the doubter can verify this information). He may be the next Airport Director when the search for a new Director is over.

He stated this is the route your luggage goes through. All those with Yellow tags are pulled aside by the Disney people. They are than put in luggage bins set up for each hotel at Disney. The full luggage bins are than locked, for security, and transferred to Delta Cargo where trucks are waiting to take them to the kingdom resorts. At Delta cargo the full luggage bins are routed to the proper trucks, loaded and the trucks head to Disney. Disney does not rent any space to separate or hold this luggage. He believes Disney is paying Delta Cargo for the sorting to the resorts. All yellow Disney luggage tagged baggage will end up at Disney as fast as they can get it out there. Disney employs approximately 70 people to accomplish this.

 

[Donald is #1]

Wow! It seems like they are very organized. Thanks for the info.

 

[tms295]

Does the DME luggage (marked w/ yellow tags) ever make it to the "baggage claim area" or is it pulled behind the scences.

 

[cvs2kids]

Does the DME luggage (marked w/ yellow tags) ever make it to the "baggage claim area" or is it pulled behind the scences.

Last year, we flew Continental and could look out and see them unloading the luggage from the plane. The pieces with yellow tags were put in a seperate bin at that point.

My wife and I both swear they handled the Disney luggage with a lot more care than the other. They would just toss the non-disney luggage, but carefully place the DME bound pieces.

 

[clkelley]

99.9% is pulled before it ever makes it to the baggage belt.

However, on my December trip, I had a piece of carryon luggage that was checked at the gate for me. (I had packed it so it would fit under the seat, but TSA decided to open it and inspect by hand, and by the time they got through with it, it was too fat, and I really didn't want to take the time to repack it). So I did go to the carousel to retrieve it. I saw a couple of pieces of luggage with yellow tags roll around on the carousel once, and they did not reappear a second time.

They must have been caught on a second sweep as they rolled around the back.

 

[Edd]

I am sure there are times when the DME luggage makes it to the carousels, but like in one other post it was said the luggage never appeared a second time. It was missed, got on the carousel and than was spotted by a Disney employee coming back around and picked up and shipped to Disney.

There have been many times when a person was waiting for luggage and after everyone else got theres, the luggage did not appear. The passengers went to the airline office and asked about the luggage. The first question asked is, "did you put the yellow Disney stickers on the luggage," and this goes for the cruise line, also, as I think their stickers are pink. When the passenger replies "yes," the airline people told them the luggage is at Disney or on the ship. I have queried a number of drivers and skycaps lately, they have told me this happens a lot since DME came in.

 

[Lewisc]

DME employees even go to the unclaimed luggage office to grab the bags from guests who forgot to put the DME tags and for the rare times when the DME tags came off.

 

[Edd]

Last week I saw the Disney CM's checking the luggage set aside the carousel, in a taped off area, on the baggage floor that no body had picked up. When another passenger walked over to check for his bags in that area, and actually walked into the area, the Disney guys told him it was a "secured area." The passenger was aggravated and shot back to the guys "you don't work for the airport either." The guys went into Continental Baggage and pointed the passenger out to the lady inside. Nothing was done while I was there.