The bags have to be taken off the plane and brought either inside or to the carousel. When I arrived a few weeks ago, you did not enter the baggage claim area until your flight was unloaded. The baggage handlers unload the luggage not the VIP service. No sense being in the baggage claim area if your bags are not there, that is why they are doing it like they are. Well, and to cover for the ineptness of how the reconstruction process has been handled.