The first step to securing your luggage is to travel with durable, quality luggage. This helps avoid lost or stolen belongings during transit. Here are a few more tips by American Airlines
How Your Luggage Travels with American Airlines
Once checked in at the ticket counter, your baggage is placed on a series of conveyor belts. The conveyor belts transport baggage to a location where bags are loaded into multiple carts according to flight number and destination. In large AA airports, automated scanners read the code on the bag tag and direct the bag to the correct loading area. Your bag will go through a series of conveyor belts, chutes, and other mechanisms before reaching the point where it is loaded into a cart and taken out to the aircraft.
Safety Travel Tip: Please remove any straps, hangers and protruding objects from your bag before checking it. These may get caught in the baggage system and cause damage to your luggage and personal items. . Bags that are bulging or are not sufficiently constructed to support the weight inside may split during the trip through the bag belt system.
The baggage is loaded in the cargo compartment of the aircraft, usually using another conveyor belt. Due to the amount of space in the compartment, bags may have to be placed flat and stacked on top of each other. Although the baggage compartments are secured with nets or straps, bags can shift during flight due to the plane’s angle during take-off.
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