Might post this here and then also under the ROLL CALL for PIP.

I have always recommended collecting and rechecking your luggage for TAhiti because SO MANY bags go missing in the connections to Air Tahiti Nui at LAX. Not sure why that is but it happens all the time.

Well now with the security there is a LONG separate line to get your bags xrayed before you check in for the Air Tahiti flight. EVerytime I got through LAX that lines seems to be longer.

I am not sure that it is worth it anymore. So if you check your bags all the way through I suggest that "just in case" they lose your bags take a little something in your carry ons. If your bags are lost they usually meet you in Bora Bora so it is a couple of days.