Harlingen Airport
This is the AA operation run out of the Harlingen, TX location and well, just be prepared to wait.
When you arrive at the airport and head to the check-in areas you see all the other airlines with their people diligently accepting luggage, printing boarding passes and all the other airline things that go on.
The American Airlines counter: not so much.
Apparently this is a shoe-string operation where the people who run the counter are also working as the boarding agents at the gate, and probably cleaning and directing airplanes on the tarmac which means: You gonna be standing there like a chooch waiting around for one of them to show up so you can check your bags.
There is even a sign om the counter that "bags will only be accepted 2 hours before boarding" but the reality is, they will show up eventually.
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