When Mr. Short is called to the baggage-claim area at an airport, it doesn't take much to guess what's waiting for him.

As the Knicks headed to the baggage-claim area, several players were stopped for autographs.

Big bags or parcels, checked through, often take up to half an hour to reappear at the baggage-claim area.

We landed and I was in the baggage-claim area when the second plane hit the towers.

Finally, a gate next to the kiosk swings open and the traveler moves on to the baggage-claim area and then to Customs.

The Beagle Brigade generally works in the baggage-claim area at international airports.

He glanced around and pointed to a closed door just beyond the empty baggage-claim area several yards to their right.

When he last saw her she was walking rapidly into the baggage-claim area, away from the row of airlines' counters.

He goes directly to the baggage-claim area.

No need for a baggage-claim area; the airport staff opens a hatch on one side of the plane and tosses bags out onto the ground.