After hours of travelling, waiting in the baggage hall to be reunited with your suitcase can be a long, drawn out process – but not for everyone
After hours of travelling, collecting your baggage is the last – but most important – thing you want to do.
To avoid the long waiting time at the conveyor belt, there’s one type of suitcase that will be “guaranteed” as first to come out – or one of the first ones at least, according to an airport worker.
If you’re in a situation where you have to check in your bag, and you haven’t got much time in between, there’s one hack revealed by an employee from a regional US airport that will help you get your bags much faster – and a former check-in agent has agreed it does actually work.
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Speaking to Quora, the employee said: “Bags will always be loaded front to back on the bag carts so if you check last your bags will be in the last bag cart.” Nonetheless, this trick can be quite risky, as passengers might be missing the check-in closing time.
However, there’s another trick, which is probably far easier to do: ask the check-in agent to add a fragile sticker to your luggage before sending it off. This is because bags identified as fragile are often loaded last, therefore, they’re the first ones to come out.
Travel expert Katy Nastro from Going also said that being a frequent traveller and earning a status with a specific airline comes with a lot of benefits, including the priority of your bags being offloaded first.
She explained that airlines have special tags for those types of passengers, so employees have it much easier to identify them and separate them from the rest.
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However, Jesse Neugarten, another airline expert from Dollar Flight Club, revealed that the only way your bag is guaranteed to come out one of the first ones is by travelling in First Class. He said: “Baggage for first-class passengers often travels on a separate cart and is sorted for fast delivery.”
“It’s one of the few consistent perks airlines still prioritise – and yes, it often works,” he added.
If you’re planning on travelling soon, but don’t want to spend thousands of pounds on a First Class ticket, you might want to consider trying out one of these hacks. Although they’re not completely guaranteed, it never hurts to try.