Does your luggage get treated better on prem/biz/First?

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Yes it comes out first, airlines will probably help you more if its lost/damaged.

But is the luggage handled more gently? Or differently?
 
Not travelled F, but in J (depending on destination airport) no guarantee your luggage will be treated any better than all the rest. Even with airline priority labels prominently displayed, in Switzerland and Vietnam and Vancouver was actually last bag on the carousel. In other airports came out randomly from early to very late.
 
In my experience - Asian airlines are the only ones who manage to get priority bags off first - of course, only when arriving in their home port. SQ gets first prize for this.

QF and VA bag delivery is totally random.

2 bags checked-in together are almost never delivered together (or even close to each other)
 
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Some airlines have a priority line for F/J bag problems, and offer different ‘emergency’ compensation depending on your class. For example when my bags were delayed on SWISS it was CHF350 for F, 250 for J and 125 for Y per 24 hour delay to cover essentials.
 

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