Quick DME question

[Dubb]

I am sitting in SFO right now awaiting my flight. When checking my luggage at the Southwest counter, the guy taking our bags began tearing off the yellow tags! I asked him what he was doing and then he asked what they were for. After telling him it was for the Disney bus service, he said "you put them on too early", and handed me those he already tore off. I said, "we won't be seeing them again, when am I supposed to put them on?" His reply? "when you get to baggage claim!" I told him we would be skipping baggage claim and that our bags would be picked up by the service. He then snatched the yellow tags back from my hand, put them back on the bags, and threw our bags onto the belt! Question is, should I wory about receiving my bags? They now have both the yellow tags and the Southwest tags with bar codes, and we have baggage claim tickets.

 

[CarolMN]

You will be fine. There should be both the airline tags and the yellow tags on the checked bags. Airline tags route the bags to the correct flight. Yellow tags route the bags to ME and the correct resort.

As long as the yellow tags are on the bags, the ME folks will get your bags. They get them before they go on the baggage claim carousel at MCO.

Good for you for paying attention. That SWA employee was just plain wrong. Too bad he had to be such a jerk about it.

 

[goofy4tink]

Good for you for not getting cranky. I would have been a wee bit cranky if that had happened to me. I think I would have just stood there and told him to put on the tags he needs to put on and leave the rest alone..that what I do with my bag is my business, and he has no right to touch them, other than to put on his airlines destination tags.
You shouldn't have any issues by the way. It should all be fine.

 

[amnhunte]

I was understanding that DME does not pick up bags from Southwest. Do you know when they changed this?

 

[goofy4tink]

I was understanding that DME does not pick up bags from Southwest. Do you know when they changed this?

SW has always picked up bags for DME upon arrival into MCO. It is when returning to MCO, at the end of your stay, that you can't do RAC if flying SW. They do not participate in the RAC (remote airline checkin) program.
Many, many people have been told that they can not tag their checked bags with the yellow DME luggage tags and expect SW to pick them up when they get to MCO. That is wrong....if the baggage handlers, with any airline at MCO, see a bag with that yellow tag, it gets picked up and set aside for resort delivery.

 

[debster812]

I was understanding that DME does not pick up bags from Southwest. Do you know when they changed this?

DME has always PICKED UP bags from all flights arriving at MCO. Regardless of airline. As long as they have those yellow tags, they'll get picked up.

What you might be thinking of is your trip back home. You cannot check your bag at your Disney resort if you are flying Southwest. You must take them on the DME bus, and check them when you arrive at the airport.

 

[seashoreCM]

... at the Southwest counter, the guy taking our bags began tearing off the yellow tags! I asked him what he was doing and then he asked what they were for. After telling him it was for the Disney bus service, he said "you put them on too early", and handed me those he already tore off. I said, "we won't be seeing them again, when am I supposed to put them on?" His reply? "when you get to baggage claim!" I told him we would be skipping baggage claim and that our bags would be picked up by the service. He then snatched the yellow tags back from my hand, put them back on the bags, and threw our bags onto the belt! Question is, should I wory about receiving my bags? They now have both the yellow tags and the Southwest tags with bar codes, and we have baggage claim tickets.

(when you get to your room)
Did all of your bags make it? If you had to go back to the registration desk to straighten things out and also one of the tags he tore off did not stick back on long enough only then write a complaint to Southwest.

Now an airline does have the right to forbid auxiliary tags when publishing a notice to that effect in their contract of carriage. Should this be the case, you would have to use the orginal long procedure at the DME welcoming area: forego the prescreening that sends you directly to the bus and go to the welcoming counter to show your claim checks.

They now have both the yellow ...

OT: I hate it when the addressing needed for an envelope does not fit on one ordinary address label for example needs to take six or seven lines of information. Like "Readville Station Boston, MA" or "Grand Central Station, New York, NY". Or complicated building room numbering. Or both a P.O. Box and a street address. Actually four lines should be enough.

 

[goofy4tink]

(when you get to your room)
Did all of your bags make it? If you had to go back to the registration desk to straighten things out and also one of the tags he tore off did not stick back on long enough only then write a complaint to Southwest.

Now an airline does have the right to forbid auxiliary tags when publishing a notice to that effect in their contract of carriage. Should this be the case, you would have to use the orginal long procedure at the DME welcoming area: forego the prescreening that sends you directly to the bus and go to the welcoming counter to show your claim checks.

OT: I hate it when the addressing needed for an envelope does not fit on one ordinary address label for example needs to take six or seven lines of information. Like "Readville Station Boston, MA" or "Grand Central Station, New York, NY". Or complicated building room numbering. Or both a P.O. Box and a street address. Actually four lines should be enough.

Care to explain what that OT accomplishes? Adds nothing whatsoever to the discussion and serves only to confuse people.

 

[amnhunte]

I hope everything works out and thank you guys =]

 

[dburg30]

Care to explain what that OT accomplishes? Adds nothing whatsoever to the discussion and serves only to confuse people.

And you thought I had out in left field replies sometimes