Stop The Press! Baggage Handlers Work in SYD!

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Ok - in all seriousness - either the baggage handlers have been outsourced to SIN... Or for once they actually work.

I just arrived in SYD on QF12, I was the fourth person to disembark from F.

I made a beeline straight to SmartGate, was through in under 2 mins, and unbelievably the entire carousel was full of bags.

And - to make it even more amazingly newsworthy, my AA tagged Priority Bag was right there waiting for me!! :)

Kind of like when you win the lottery though - I'm not expecting it to ever happen again in my lifetime though.
 
Ok - in all seriousness - either the baggage handlers have been outsourced to SIN... Or for once they actually work.

I just arrived in SYD on QF12, I was the fourth person to disembark from F.

I made a beeline straight to SmartGate, was through in under 2 mins, and unbelievably the entire carousel was full of bags.

And - to make it even more amazingly newsworthy, my AA tagged Priority Bag was right there waiting for me!! :)

Kind of like when you win the lottery though - I'm not expecting it to ever happen again in my lifetime though.

I'm gobsmacked! I never had to wait long for bags but never had them there when getting to the belt. And I have to queue for passport check as well. Was the airport really quiet this morning?
 
Ok - in all seriousness - either the baggage handlers have been outsourced to SIN... Or for once they actually work.

I just arrived in SYD on QF12, I was the fourth person to disembark from F.

I made a beeline straight to SmartGate, was through in under 2 mins, and unbelievably the entire carousel was full of bags.

And - to make it even more amazingly newsworthy, my AA tagged Priority Bag was right there waiting for me!! :)

Kind of like when you win the lottery though - I'm not expecting it to ever happen again in my lifetime though.

No way!!!! I'd suggest it was some sort of elaborate prank to steal your luggage, check that your bags are not brick laden doppelgangers.
 
What was the total time from leaving the aircraft to walking out the terminal door? Less than 15 minutes? Thats remarkable!
 
I'm not sure if this is such a good sign.

Yesterday I was on the first row on Y and very quick off the plane. I made one detour- two bottles at duty free. But this was a 2 minute stop at most (I knew what I wanted and there was no line at checkout). Quickly through the smartgates and I too was surprised that the carousel was full of bags (QF22 from Narita). I thought that I was one of the first to the carousel and parked myself so that I could see bags comings out both sides. I then looked for my bag on the carousel and thought I saw it. I pulled it off to find out that it was identical- even with the same business tags that mine would have- but not quite mine. Mine has bright yellow twine around one of the handles... otherwise they are identical.

You see where this is going right? half an hour later I'm the only dope left around the carousel with my bag 'twin' going around. I pull it off and look for a tag. I find it and send an SMS to the two numbers listed. The response is a 'sorry I'm past customs- what do we do'? Anyway, I approached two customs people and they brought her back inside. we swapped bags- put them through the x ray machines again and then off. Found out she and her husband were in Business, and they were the first at the carousel- must have beaten me by 3 minutes or so.
 
11 minutes from aircraft door to public arrivals hall.

4th off the aircraft, most of the delay was walking to SmartGate. 2 min wait for SmartGate. Immigration hall and customs hall were busy.

Carousel was pretty full of luggage, a quick scan and I saw my bag and was walking through the Express Lane less than 60 seconds after walking down the stairs from immigration.

3 mins to get through the express lane and to the arrivals hall.

Then I had to wait 30 mins for my driver as I anticipated baggage would take time!
 
Ok - in all seriousness - either the baggage handlers have been outsourced to SIN... Or for once they actually work.

I just arrived in SYD on QF12, I was the fourth person to disembark from F.

I made a beeline straight to SmartGate, was through in under 2 mins, and unbelievably the entire carousel was full of bags.

And - to make it even more amazingly newsworthy, my AA tagged Priority Bag was right there waiting for me!! :)

Kind of like when you win the lottery though - I'm not expecting it to ever happen again in my lifetime though.


Are you sure you were not in Singapore ?
 
Perhaps the bags all came on an earlier flight, and had been getting dizzy for an hour on the belt waiting for your flight to arrive?
 
Perhaps the bags all came on an earlier flight, and had been getting dizzy for an hour on the belt waiting for your flight to arrive?

Excellent possibility - except I was on QF12... So the first departure ex-LAX.

I know though - it still seems so implausible!!
 
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Ok - in all seriousness - either the baggage handlers have been outsourced to SIN... Or for once they actually work.

I just arrived in SYD on QF12, I was the fourth person to disembark from F.

I made a beeline straight to SmartGate, was through in under 2 mins, and unbelievably the entire carousel was full of bags.

And - to make it even more amazingly newsworthy, my AA tagged Priority Bag was right there waiting for me!! :)

Kind of like when you win the lottery though - I'm not expecting it to ever happen again in my lifetime though.

Are you a wizard?
 
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