bag drag

n. generally, the transportation of luggage; in air travel, a connecting flight or the act of getting to a flight (with luggage); in the military, a change in deployment, especially a multi-part itinerary that includes a change in vehicles, modes of transportation, or gear. Subjects: English, Military

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Citations: 1990 Carey French Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Nov. 17) “Airport’s luggage crisis of more than 20 million bags yearly has British Airways staff ‘on the brink of a nervous breakdown” p. F6: “Why, if we are incapable of transferring passengers’ bags, do we continue to pretend we can.” Faced with the anguish of being separated from luggage, the personal “bag drag” would surely be the better way, the staffer suggested. 1994 Vince Kohler Portland Oregonian (Jan. 29) “Astronaut Makes Rounds In Portland” p. B4: Astronauts call it “the bag drag.” The name comes from lugging their bags from airport to airport as they make the rounds on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1994 Laura A. Galloway Los Angeles Times (Mar. 20) “L.A. Speak: Flight Attendants” p. 12: Bag drag: n. when a flight attendant takes a trip but never even opens her luggage. 1998 Department Of The Us Air Force @ Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany (FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database) (June 16) “Troops Heading For Bosnia Can Say Goodbye To ‘Bag Drag’”: The service is going one step further and getting rid of the No. 1 irritant for troops deployed to Hungary and the former Yugoslavia: The bag drag they experience when they deploy from their home base. 1998 Ray Johnson Airman (Oct. 1) “Over here, over there” vol. 42, no. 10, p. 40: For almost three years, the bulk of Balkan-peacekeeping troops have served in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Hungary. To arrive, most did the infamous “bag drag,” hauling mobility gear from airport to airport, often incurring excess-baggage costs, delays and weapons hassles. 2000 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Becky Howell Austin American-Statesman (Aug. 31) “The work we do” p. 26: Sometimes if you have a 20 or 30 minute turn in a city, somebody on the crew will make a food run to the terminal. If you’re lucky, you stay with one plane all day. If not, you’ve got a bag drag from one end of the airport to another. 2003 Richard A. Bowen @ Foothill Ranch, Calif. Los Angeles Times (Apr. 6) “If he has to fly, he’ll skip the trip” p. L16: As the son of an international airline captain and a pilot in the Marine Corps for 22 years, I have spent a lot of time in the back—and front—of aircraft.…On a recent ski trip to Utah, I did not enjoy doing the “bag drag” to a security checkpoint after standing in line at the main ticket counter. 2004 Dave Flight Level 390 (Phoenix, Ariz.) (Dec. 5) “Non Directional Beacon”: At Las Vegas we had a bag drag, airline parlance for an aircraft change.

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