At baggage claim, my family and I were met by dozens of excited relations I'd never met before.

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The lag is why you had to wait, fruitlessly, at baggage claim.

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Better yet, why don't carriers modernize baggage-claim systems so that luggage is at the carousel when passengers get there?

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