Flow: Wanting Your Bags With Your Flight
Remember all those fees you were paying American Airlines to add another bag to your roster of bags that absolutely must come with you on the flight?
That was meant to compensate for fuel, I'm sure. And you need those bags.
So, you would hate it, right, if after all that fee-paying the clunk baggage system fouled up when you arrived in New York to visit your relatives.
That happened at JFK this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that the baggage meltdown is one more reason to take your bag on board.
This makes your flight nomad hack here reflect back on travels to other destinations in the world and how easy it is for other airports to consistently deliver baggage in a timely manner, while keeping things interesting.
Hong Kong International Airport comes to mind. When you land in Hong Kong you go through this streamlined immigration process. They are good at this, because every destination away from Hong Kong is international. There are no such things as domestic flights, even into China.
You whizz through immigration and come out to this immense canyon of baggage claims. And while you wait probably no longer than 12 minutes for your bags, you can read people leaving personal messages on the turnstile monitors, via text messaging, of course.
That was meant to compensate for fuel, I'm sure. And you need those bags.
So, you would hate it, right, if after all that fee-paying the clunk baggage system fouled up when you arrived in New York to visit your relatives.
That happened at JFK this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that the baggage meltdown is one more reason to take your bag on board.
This makes your flight nomad hack here reflect back on travels to other destinations in the world and how easy it is for other airports to consistently deliver baggage in a timely manner, while keeping things interesting.
Hong Kong International Airport comes to mind. When you land in Hong Kong you go through this streamlined immigration process. They are good at this, because every destination away from Hong Kong is international. There are no such things as domestic flights, even into China.
You whizz through immigration and come out to this immense canyon of baggage claims. And while you wait probably no longer than 12 minutes for your bags, you can read people leaving personal messages on the turnstile monitors, via text messaging, of course.
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