# Airline Boarding Procedures. WTF!!?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-boarding-procedures-wtf/380647 "2006-11-16T08:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-boarding-procedures-wtf/380647/47 "2006-11-17T20:28:10Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Just out of interest, as someone who flies so regularly, how often have you had your checked bags delayed or lost? [/QUOTE] In three years, over about 200 flights, exactly once. And that was when I switched to an earlier flight just 40 minutes before it took off. They delivered it to my hotel about three hours after I got there. Happened again last night (I was actually in the airport when I wrote my post.) It took 45 minutes to board a medium-sized airplane because of all the retards dragging huge suitcases onto the plane, and of course there wasn’t enough room for it all. I’m starting to wonder if some people actually are unaware that the airline will take your bags for you for free. Things would be different on RickAir. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-boarding-procedures-wtf/380647)._