Priority luggage, enough is enough.

[marki]

Yesterday I flew CBR-xMEL-PER with my CL polly, him in J and me in Y on the same flights. We checked in at the Q Card reader then put our bags through ourselves. The sequence number on our boarding passes (they are printed by the CL host) showed that we checked in one after the other. I'd say my bag was sent down the bag at most three minutes before his.

In Perth, mine was about the 7th one out. The polly's took five to seven minutes.

I've never known priority baggage to work properly. When it does happen my inclination is to think it's purely by accident.

Luggage had been out first or one of the first even on international trips. Being WP dropped down from WP1 recently has not changed anything. But have had atrocious baggage handling with 30-40 min wait times where of course YMML where else....

 

[Danger]

Yesterday I flew CBR-xMEL-PER with my CL polly, him in J and me in Y on the same flights. We checked in at the Q Card reader then put our bags through ourselves. The sequence number on our boarding passes (they are printed by the CL host) showed that we checked in one after the other. I'd say my bag was sent down the bag at most three minutes before his.

In Perth, mine was about the 7th one out. The polly's took five to seven minutes.

I've never known priority baggage to work properly. When it does happen my inclination is to think it's purely by accident.

An almost identical experience yesterday except the polly's luggage as the second last bag out. No exaggeration. Second last.

 

[trippin_the_rift]

Priory baggage isn't too hard to implement really. They just need to copy what FedEx/dhl etc do with deliveries. Essentially every package is sent super VIP express. They will then purposely slow down packages that didn't pay the express/top rates. So its not that any parcel gets priority - it's that others are halted while those that paid the premium get theirs first.

 

[Girlcarlton]

Honestly does it matter as long as your luggage is on the same flight as your are and eventually comes out. Alternatively you could travel HLO.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Honestly does it matter as long as your luggage is on the same flight as your are and eventually comes out. Alternatively you could travel HLO.

It probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. But if it's a listed benefit that's offered, then get it right. It may be a factor in deciding where you spend your $$$, and as such is misleading.

 

[CaviAck]

Honestly does it matter as long as your luggage is on the same flight as your are and eventually comes out. Alternatively you could travel HLO.

Sometimes it does matter. Like when you're at a regional airport and there are no or very little taxis around.

 

[Danger]

Honestly does it matter as long as your luggage is on the same flight as your are and eventually comes out. Alternatively you could travel HLO.

Well of course. The rest of us have had it all wrong.

It doesn't matter if you're seat doesn't recline, your IFE doesn't work, the air-conditioning fails and the nine course First class degustation menu isn't served because someone forgot to load it. What matters is you departed, you flew and then you landed at your destination.

And, silly us. Hand luggage is obviously the only approach when heading on a holiday for two weeks with the partner and two kids. One can easily bag a fortnight's clothes into a 7kg carry-on. Or all those books and documents one needs for a work trip. Just lob them all into that 7kg rollaboard. The solution is just so simply.

With respect, your comment displays a pile of ignorance. Far apart from this benefit - or any other - the point remains that Qantas advertises a benefit, a perk of a higher status that adds to the list of enticements one sees when determining whether or not they should yearn for that next level, but doesn't deliver. Time and again.

Through our status we pay for that benefit and we're not getting it. That's what matters.

 

[codash1099]

This has been a problem since way before RF tags were introduced. Especially with containerised baggage, it is so easy to solve. It's my guess that QF just does not have the will to solve it. Perhaps they would rather "enhance it" but feel that would be one step too far.

 

[Fifa]

Sat 29 November
QF865 OOL-SYD
2 x suitcases tagged with priority tags (we were both travelling in J and are WP) and they came out number 76 & 100 :shock:.
If they had come out in the first batch we would not have missed the Rydges bus (by only 2 mins)!

 

[CaviAck]

Sat 29 November
QF865 OOL-SYD
2 x suitcases tagged with priority tags (we were both travelling in J and are WP) and they came out number 76 & 100 :shock:.
If they had come out in the first batch we would not have missed the Rydges bus (by only 2 mins)!

76 and 100? I'm impressed that you counted that far!

 

[clazman]

What was omitted...he had 15 QF silvers with the shoes off providing the additional digits to allow the count

 

[Fifa]

76 and 100? I'm impressed that you counted that far!

I was standing near the entrance to the belt and when the bags didn't come out in the first few, I thought I'd just start counting...