Luggage issue at jambo house

[lanejudy]

It had nothing to do with wheels. You would have been required to check them on our flight last week, if you'd been in loading group 5. Nothing that couldn't fit under your seat was allowed on board. NOTHING in the overhead bin by that point. No exceptions.

I deal with that frequently on the flights I take for work. In fact, I plan on it now. I'm rarely in boarding group 5 but will grab a gate-check ticket anyway. Drop the bag at the end of the jetway before entering the plane, and most of the time it's waiting in the jetway when I get off (one time I had to go to baggage claim for it). Not very unusual for smaller, older planes that weren't designed for everyone lugging their bags as carry-on.

 

[AngiTN]

I deal with that frequently on the flights I take for work. In fact, I plan on it now. I'm rarely in boarding group 5 but will grab a gate-check ticket anyway. Drop the bag at the end of the jetway before entering the plane, and most of the time it's waiting in the jetway when I get off (one time I had to go to baggage claim for it). Not very unusual for smaller, older planes that weren't designed for everyone lugging their bags as carry-on.

I'm used to that too, or was. But on our flight last week, they didn't offer that. They checked the bag through to final destination. The option to pick it up at the end of the first leg was not available.

 

[morgan98]

I leave for Disney myself in two weeks and am taking Magical Express to the Grand Floridian. It is for a four day work conference, so I will be going alone. I just received my luggage tag in the mail and I started to question myself about using the luggage service (I never have in the past, for personal or work related trips).

I will claim my own bag and bring it to the bus with me. I will feel better knowing where my suitcase is immediately after arriving in Orlando.

 

[Dug720]

Or it was ripped off while going through the depths of the airport.

Yup! My sister had a bag on a non-stop flight from Orlando to Nashville on Souhwest not turn up. Their own bag tag got ripped off by airport machinery - apparently the machine was hungry as there were a lot of lost bags per the line in the baggage issues office.

 

[Shanti]

His suitcase had been torn apart by the TSA. My question is this - is this a common occurrence?

What do you mean by "torn apart by the TSA"? Do you mean suitcase opened & rifled through? Or the suitcase badly damaged by extreme handling? The former is not uncommon. The latter I've never heard of the TSA doing.

I think the TSA screens luggage before flights take off & not after they arrive, so I don't think the TSA looking through their luggage caused the delay in baggage delivery directly, by it occurring after landing. It likely caused it indirectly, by the TSA agents removing the DME label from the suitcase, so that DME never picked it up.

Did the suitcase have a DME label on it upon arrival at the resort? If not, and if your friend had put the label on it prior to the flight (without the label restricting TSA's ability to open the suitcase), then I would complain to his home airport, where that occurred.

 

[Shanti]

IME, SW is agonizingly slow in off loading their luggage as well, so you can have very long waits watching that empty carousel go around.

This. It's been my experience that SWA takes forever off-loading luggage, too. I've also had them misroute my luggage.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It had nothing to do with wheels. You would have been required to check them on our flight last week, if you'd been in loading group 5. Nothing that couldn't fit under your seat was allowed on board. NOTHING in the overhead bin by that point. No exceptions.

I always bring a personal item that fits underneath the seat and only sometimes do I bring what would be considered a carry on due to it's size. All my 'next day just in case' stuff is packed in my personal item not a carry on.

Most often my husband is the one with both because he'll use a small-ish backpack that would go under his seat for electronics like computer and tablet and then a carry on for other things. Now for what he packs in the backpack (meaning if he packs a 'next day just in case' stuff) I've got no idea. I just know what I personally do lol.

I for sure understand what the PP was talking about in terms of medical stuff as that may or may not even fit in something that can go under the seat.

 

[AngiTN]

Considering I've never been interested in hauling around a heavy bag I've never looked into something that did fit under the seat that could fit enough for my overnight needs but I guess, if we are going to continue to utilize our local airport and their small flights, I will need to. That or reduce my overnight needs

 

[georgina]

I always fly SW non-stop to MCO, and my wheeled carryon fits in the overhead just fine. I have never had to gate check it. Once years ago I used points on American (with 1 plane change) and they made me gate check my bag through to my destination, then of course was lost somewhere. At least it was on my way home. They delivered it the next day to our home (it had my wet bathing suit in it). If I'm only going for 4-5 nights I don't need to check anything.

 

[AngiTN]

I always fly SW non-stop to MCO, and my wheeled carryon fits in the overhead just fine. I have never had to gate check it. Once years ago I used points on American (with 1 plane change) and they made me gate check my bag through to my destination, then of course was lost somewhere. At least it was on my way home. They delivered it the next day to our home (it had my wet bathing suit in it). If I'm only going for 4-5 nights I don't need to check anything.

You never will on SW. They have all the same size planes in their fleet, and roll aboard bags fit. One of the ways they are unique and they think it makes them more efficient, only one plane to learn. They have at least two seat configurations but still one aircraft type

Both Delta and American have made us gate check (most recent was Delta)

 

[a1tinkfans]

Is they’d just make sure people had the Correct size carry on And that they had no xtra stuff, there’d be more room and less carry Ins being taken away for those unlucky people.
I would not be happy to have my carry on taken .. I’ve been seeing it more and more tho..

 

[sndral]

Is they’d just make sure people had the Correct size carry on And that they had no xtra stuff, there’d be more room and less carry Ins being taken away for those unlucky people.
I would not be happy to have my carry on taken .. I’ve been seeing it more and more tho..

Yep, isn't carry on supposed to be limited to one item that is no bigger than that airline's standard allowed size and one personal item that will fit beneath the seat?
I wish airlines would just enforce their own rules and make people gate check all of the 3rd, 4th, 5th items people haul onto the airplane so that there is still space for those in the late boarding groups to stow their carry on when they board.
It also slows down deplaning as everyone waits for the people ahead of them to collect their multiple extra pieces of carry on - not that big a deal if you are at your destination, but stressful for those behind you with a connection to make on a late plane!

 

[AngiTN]

Yep, isn't carry on supposed to be limited to one item that is no bigger than that airline's standard allowed size and one personal item that will fit beneath the seat?
I wish airlines would just enforce their own rules and make people gate check all of the 3rd, 4th, 5th items people haul onto the airplane so that there is still space for those in the late boarding groups to stow their carry on when they board.
It also slows down deplaning as everyone waits for the people ahead of them to collect their multiple extra pieces of carry on - not that big a deal if you are at your destination, but stressful for those behind you with a connection to make on a late plane!

Yes, And it is how I always see it enforced. I've never seen a single flight allow anyone a 3rd, 4th, 5th item or anything larger than the allowed carry on size (22" I think it is, there's a rack they have to fit in). They've been very strict about it for the past 2 years we've been flying every couple of months.
The issue I'm referring to isn't due to that. The wheeled bags do not fit in the tops of the some of the smallest of the commuter flights we have to take from our local airport. Some of them can fit a few but not all, not one per guest. Even though the rules allow one carry one and one personal item some of the small flights still can't fit even that. Granted, if you never fly the small planes you'll never encounter the situation. But if you do, my only reason for mentioning it at all was to stop folks from being caught unprepared. You may want to start to relook at how you pack for your first 24 hours.

 

[Moliphino]

Is they’d just make sure people had the Correct size carry on And that they had no xtra stuff, there’d be more room and less carry Ins being taken away for those unlucky people.
I would not be happy to have my carry on taken .. I’ve been seeing it more and more tho..

They do, but most planes don't have enough overhead bin space for every single passenger to bring a carry on. And when airlines charge for checked bags you get more people bringing carry ons.

 

[Dean Marino]

They do, but most planes don't have enough overhead bin space for every single passenger to bring a carry on. And when airlines charge for checked bags you get more people bringing carry ons.

And then we get the regional airplanes.... Little connecting flights. DELTA has a number of these. GOOD LUCK with a carry-on .

These pitiful planes have close to ZERO OHS. ALWAYS plan on stuffing something under the seat in front of you. ROLLER bags? Total joke.... carry a soft side day bag that can be crushed.

Or don't. Your choice.

 

[caitycaity]

I've also never had my claim ticket checked when leaving the baggage claim area, and I've been to a lot of airports.

I've had it happen a few times both domestically and internationally. Domestically it was at LAS and SEA.

 

[Moliphino]

I've had it happen a few times both domestically and internationally. Domestically it was at LAS and SEA.

Huh, it's been two years since I flew there but they didn't check when I went to LAS. Haven't been to SEA.

 

[Grammy4Lizzy]

I live in Las Vegas and they have not checked luggage tags since before 2001.