Originally Posted by
edi_local
I thought it was commonplace on US Domestic flights to not always offload baggage even if the passengers were not on-board? As much as I disagree with the practice, this is not the first time I've heard of this happening.
Every person denied on a flight now seems to want to get their 5 minutes of fame. If this was to happen to me I'd me mortified and be the one apologising to be honest. The last thing I'd do is go running to the press.
Yes - no positive bag matching on US domestic flights. It's fairly common for bags to take earlier flights (or later flights - _without_ the extra rush bag stuff they do elsewhere), or even occasionally to take a different routing. Airlines do make it a little harder to switch flights once you've checked bags, but it's still possible (they then "try" to make your bag follow you, but usually fail).