Luggage carousels in airports

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My colleagues, a couple of customers and myself have spotted this at luggage carousels. Stand around the one for your flight and belts not moving. Then see the belts move. Only to have ONE piece of luggage to do the circuit at least 10 times before the rest of the plane’s luggage is put out. You get sick seeing the luggage.

You never see this piece of luggage being picked up by it’s owner. It has the same flight number on the luggage label as your flight. So it’s not from the previous flight that used the carousel.

Can anyone explain this? Where are the owners?

 

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Handling firms have a KPI to get the luggage from the plane to the baggage reclaim.

They can meet this as soon as the first bag is loaded onto the reclaim belt so, as long as they get 1 piece on the belt, they have passed that KPI regardless of how long it takes for the remaining luggage to get there.

You can figure out the rest

But why is this luggage never collected?

In a similar way to when I visit the eye dept at my hospital. Get called over to a room where you read letters out from a Snellen chart. They record that time as the time seen to. Even though I have waited 2 hours after this to see my consultant.

 

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How do you know it was never collected, did you sit and watch this luggage for a few days ?

I have waited almost 3 hours for luggage before. The sole piece of luggage at the beginning was still there when I picked my suitcase up. The couple standing by me were saying "its that suitcase again" "how many more times do we need to see it"