The airline also ranked first in baggage handling and had the second-lowest rate in bumping passengers due to overbooking.
American has been last or next-to-last among major airlines at on-time performance for the past three years, and among the bottom three in baggage handling over that period.
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TripAdvisor's app has a built-in baggage fee estimator: Tell the app how many bags you plan to check and whether you have elite status on any airlines that would waive bag fees and it builds the fee charges into fare quotes you get.
Under TSA rules, guns are allowed in checked baggage in locked, hard-sided containers.
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From the first footsteps on Swiss soil you notice it - in the wheels of the airport luggage carts, in the baggage carousels, in the tailoring of the porters' jackets, and in the movement of the wrist-watches advertised all around.
Then the clerk took him to the other side of security, hoping that someone might be awaiting him in the baggage claim.
The passengers attempted to make their trip via boat, but a water taxi operator refused to take them to the reservation because they had alcohol in their baggage.
Rouse, of Addison Way, Uxbridge, who is unemployed, was the mastermind who carried out the crime with the help of brothers Mark and Charles Oliver, both unemployed, who knew people in a baggage handling company at the airport, Metropolitan Police said.
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"Maryland might as well mandate that Southwest Airlines flights landing in the state have two tons of cement in their baggage holders, to even out its per-passenger cost with American and other majors, " says George Stalk, a Boston Consulting Group retailing expert.
Ilyine and his wife were on their honeymoon in Thailand when they were left stuck at the airport in Phuket, he said, after their Air Australia flight was grounded with their baggage in the hold.
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German cellist Alban Gerhardt traveled 22 years checking his cello as baggage in a sturdy case.
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The luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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According the company, the luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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It has even played down an incident last month in which diplomatic baggage and supplies were seized by Venezuela's national guard.
In enacting the baggage limit, the FAA is following the guidance of an advisory task force that was set up following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
So it's probably one of those that has to be consigned to history, because it has assumed a lot of baggage in what it means, in what it implies.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.
British Airways was forced to abandon its plans of moving its entire Heathrow operations to Terminal 5 in just three days in April, after its baggage system ground to a halt, resulting in chaos in the terminal's opening days.
In Nigeria, Abdulmutallab checked no baggage on his trip that originated in Lagos on a KLM flight to Amsterdam, where he changed planes to the Northwest flight, according to Harold Demuren, director-general of Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority.
Laptops not in checkpoint friendly bags must be removed from carry-on baggage and placed separately in bins.
Kelly's favorite is the one in which a husky baggage handler cries because he's so committed to the bags.
Hours later, he got an email from a baggage handler in Atlantic City.
The worst airline for baggage handling in the U.S. this year: American Eagle, the regional affiliate of AMR Corp.
Las Vegas and Hong Kong both have baggage systems in which paper bag tags have RFID chips imbedded in them, but the technology hasn't spread.
Clinton's efforts to stress her credentials as a fighter -- and her years of experience taking on the "Republican attack machine" -- may have resurrected baggage stowed in the nation's collective memory.
The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.
Virgin America had the best baggage handling rate of all the airlines (0.87 misplaced bags per 1, 000 passengers.) American Eagle showed improvement from 2011 but still came in last, fumbling baggage at a rate of 5.80 mishandled bags per 1, 000 passengers.
In the second test, baggage and airline tires were packed alongside cardboard boxes filled with canisters.
"It was the bus carrying our baggage which was in front of us which they fired on the most, " he told French TV channel Canal Plus.
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