Originally Posted by
B.S.Kumar
And to keep it on topic, I don't know if things have changed since 2006, but it took exactly 80 minutes for baggage to arrive on the carousel on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I asked a fellow passenger what the problem could be, and he didn't appear to be fazed. He said it was normal. (In Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore it usually takes 15 minutes. In Japan, by the time you reach the carousel, the baggage is usually there, with a guy ensuring that the handle faces the passenger.) The flight itself had been delayed over an hour, and we had to sit in the plane for 40 minutes while our luggage was loaded slowly, but not carefully, by two guys who brought only ten or twelve pieces each time on their huge baggage vehicle. Due to all this, I missed my flight back to Tokyo, and was placed on standby for a flight the next day. I came very early to the airport. The place was swarming with police toting machine guns. I honestly didn't know what to make of the TSA. I saw baggage being carted to the secure area, where passengers were not allowed. In all the airports I've seen, baggage is always checked in front of the passenger. Since I was on standby, I was the last to check in. My baggage wasn't even opened, just a cursory explosives swab...
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