Among all the delays that passengers find annoying – right up there with long security lines – are the waits to pick up checked bags. Especially when passengers now pay a fee for the privilege of checking those bags. Your flight has ended and you just want to get home or to your meeting or whatever your next destination is. But you’re waiting, and sometimes waiting for half hour or more, for your bag to show up.
Well, bad enough is the normal wait time for a checked bag, but to then be waiting because of a preventable baggage jam clogging the chute is truly annoying. Yes, I just experienced that at LAX, coming back from a very long flight from China. The last thing I wanted to do was wait around longer than usual for my bag. Especially when I found out that the cause of the delay was that an over-sized, irregularly-shaped bag had been carelessly tossed on the belt, causing the jam.
A little extra attention by the baggage handlers could have easily prevented this problem. And made the experience of flying these days just a little less unpleasant.
