Happened on a recent flight with me. Company told us luggage was still on the origin airport, someone had an air tag and vehemently asked them to do a double check, and they miraculously found where it was supposed to be in the first place…
On a recent trip we just went up to the youngest looking baggage worker, showed them, asked very nicely, and they walked back and found it. Tipped em 20 bucks for 5 minutes of effort. They were super nice.
The airline was less than helpful, actively saying the bag was lost.
Take photos of your luggage before checking them. That way you can show the employees exactly what they’re looking for.
Luckily our bag was a very distinctive color with a large brand logo but yep
Ugly luggage unite!!
Happened to me on a recent trip to a country well known for crime.
Your luggage is lost sir, you’ll have to fill in a form.
My luggage is about 15m away behind that wall. Here, see this map. Go get it.
10 min later: Oh your luggage is here sir. Terribly sorry.
Not sure if incompetence or shenanigans but I got my luggage back.
Airlines are a disgrace to the gift of flight.
Nice job, you took human flight, something once hailed as breaking the chains imposed on our species by the gods above, and in the name of profit made it the most tedious and insufferable thing imaginable.
People chased the lowest fares possible too though. “Hey, I can save $5 by sitting in this even tinier space where they charge for taking a piss! I can hold it for 3 hours.”
You want a good flight experience? No problem.
You want a good flight experience that is also cheap? No sir.
The airlines just cater to the market, if people were able and willing to pay double, things would be vastly better.
If people could pay double, things would cost double. Quality likely wouldn’t change.
Source for this hypothesis?
Every streaming service.
That’s a super young market by airline standards, still settling in. Not comparable
The glory days of air travel were before deregulation and they were much more expensive. Now they are cheap and as pleasurable as going on a bus. Actually prices have been going up significantly recently but the shitty conditions remain.
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my iPhone was telling me that my AirTag was showing [the luggage] live in Toronto," said Sih. “It would update every few minutes when it would ping off someone’s phone.”
The way this works creeps me out
I don’t think it is “lying”, it sounds like their tracking system is broken. No one is talking to Air Canada and updating the system so when they check it it still says DC.
Representatives from both United Airlines and Air Canada promised to attend to the luggage and get it to him as soon as possible. “Unfortunately,” says Sih, “no one did.”
Well that is just poor service.
Ghv
