EliteAccess Baggage Handling: EliteAccess tags will be placed on all Elite members' luggage when they check-in to ensure their baggage is among the first delivered to baggage claim. (Available on flights operated by Continental Airlines and Copa Airlines only.) (second emphasis mine)
How's that for "fine print!" Since neither of your flights was on a Continental mainline aircraft the "priority" tags essentially mean squat!
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I have a major problem with this explanation. The reservation was made on the Continental website on Continental flights. The two airplanes I few had the Continental logo. I was given Continental boarding passes that said "Elite Access" on the top. If it looks like Continental, waddles like Continental, quacks like Continental...it's Continental. I don't look online to see who they contract with. Maybe their bags are handled by U.S. Airways and their lavs dumped by Delta...but as far as I'm concerned, I flew Continental.
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