How can luggage get lost and never recovered if it still has a bag tag?
Upvote:2
How can luggage get lost and never recovered ?
It's not a perfect system. Lots of things can go wrong:
- Data entry error during bag reception.
- Transfer error of the data record while it travels through all the different airport and airline systems (and probably being transcoded multiple times)
- Tag smugded or crumpled to the point that it's unreadable
- Tag partially or completely ripped off.
- Tag mis-read anywhere during the journey
- Manual handling or data entry error during the trip
- Someone else grabbed the bag off the belt intentionally
- Someone else grabbed the bag by accident and is too stupid/lazy to return it. Or they disposed of the tag before they noticed their mistake
Funny story: when I got my bag back I noticed that the handle was badly damaged and complained to the airline (LH in FRA, I think). The agent showed me to a side room that was FULL of lost or abandoned suitcases. They offered me to just grab "whichever one you like" instead of filing a length claim from and that's what I did!
More post
- 📝 Can I See Three Chicago Museums in One Day?
- 📝 Arrival time of VY8783 to Barcelona–El Prat Airport from Liverpool John Lennon Airport on June 3, 2016?
- 📝 Do Dutch people need a visa for New Zealand?
- 📝 Transport Melbourne to Byron bay via Gold Coast Airport
- 📝 Schengen Visa Annulment and Subsequent Removal
- 📝 Traveling to UK and have laptop gift for partner. Will I have to pay any import taxes?
- 📝 Documents for travel between Republic of China and People's Republic of China?
- 📝 Singapore medical visa for US citizen
- 📝 Can one travel from America back into Europe at the moment?
- 📝 Letter from Home Office after tourist visa refusal review
- 📝 Can I take a 330g tin of Fois Gras Poitiers in my 10 kg cabin bag with Ryanair?
- 📝 Use Nexus on same day as interview?
- 📝 Can you get a Philippines visa extended before having your passport stamped?
- 📝 Dubai Transit 96-hour Visa for a Return Flight
- 📝 Have Heathrow immigration queue times stabilized since the Olympics?
- 📝 Can I transit through the USA as citizen of a Schengen State during COVID-19?
- 📝 Where's this mere with board walk and cherry blossoms in Japan?
- 📝 Do Airlines Pay Airports For Check-in Areas?
- 📝 UK Visitor visa for academic
- 📝 In what case(s) is a visa only issued at the place of domicile of the applicant?
- 📝 Application for UK Special visa (Attendant for Medical Treatment) twice refused, planning to apply for Third time?
- 📝 Wearing Vibram FiveFingers while travelling in Europe
- 📝 Volunteer in UK – which visa needed?
- 📝 Pre-war travel ban
- 📝 Travel to Puerto Rico without a Passport
- 📝 Buy ticket for person who is need attendance
- 📝 Is Portugal open to travel from Brazil and vice versa, by plane? Covid problems?
- 📝 Are there European-style spas in Bangkok?
- 📝 Does a Vietnamese citizen need a transit visa for South Korea?
- 📝 Do I need a visa to visit to Spain with my Spanish wife as a non-EU citizen?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 How can luggage get lost and never recovered if it still has a bag tag?
- 📝 How can I get a brief but still extensive summary of the Conditions Of Carriage of an airline and are they an international standard?
- 📝 Lost uk passport. Due to fly from Jersey to London and London to India tomorrow? How can I get a replacement passport?
- 📝 My company has no letterhead, but Singapore requires one for proof of employment. How can I get around this?
- 📝 How close to the end of my Vietnam tourist visa can I still get an extension (through an agent)?
- 📝 Apparently the Blue Mountains trains are out at present, how can I get to Bathurst / Penrith and Sydney the easieset?
- 📝 How long should I keep the bag tag and its receipt?
- 📝 How to check if you can still get admitted to US?
- 📝 How close to Kortrijk / Courtray can you get with a Lille public transport ticket (and still make it there)?
- 📝 Can you get a UK visa close to the French/UK or Belgian/UK border and if so how fast?
- 📝 Can I get married and then still go visit to the USA on my same tourist visa I had before changing my maiden name and being married?
- 📝 Hubby lost his (UK) passport in Germany yesterday and we are due to fly to the USA on Tuesday. Can he get a visa to go with his ETD?
- 📝 Can you take a hand luggage and a small bag with Vueling?
- 📝 Can I transit through Guangzhou into Beijing from Melbourne to Almaty and still get visa-free transit?
- 📝 How can my brother pass the B1/B2 visa interview if he is single and has been unemployed for years?
- 📝 Can I get into Denmark after my study visa has expired and use the 90 day rule?
- 📝 My family member has never flown, wondering if someone can meet him at his layover and lead him to his next plane
- 📝 Can I still get NEXUS if my US green card has expired?
- 📝 After checking in luggage for upcoming American flight, can I get between Terminal 7 and Terminal 8 at JFK
- 📝 How can I get to and around El Chico National Park?
- 📝 Two overlapping itineraries A->B->C and B->D -- how to get luggage to go from A ---> D
- 📝 Is there a limit to how many lotions and perfumes one can pack on a checked luggage for an international flight? I plan on gifting them
- 📝 How can I get a copy of my lost UK refusal letter in Nigeria
- 📝 Can I book a NRT-SLC flight connecting in LAX, get off the flight at LAX and still retrieve my checked bag?
- 📝 How can I get my air ticket after having an iterenary and being issued visa?
- 📝 How can I get from the Rotterdam cruise port to the Rotterdam Centraal train station using public transport?
- 📝 How can I check if a flight has landed or is delayed when I don't know the flight number but know some facts?
- 📝 How can one get a flight receipt from Priceline?
- 📝 How can I determine if it is possible to check luggage during a layover?
- 📝 Can you get better prices by flying without checked-in luggage on intercontinental airlines?