Have the airline lost your bags?
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Happened to me/us twice.
First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
Al U said:
I was thinking this too, i mean there really is nothing stopping someone taking your suitcase. I'd like to think people take other people's cases by mistake in a rush but there will always be the opportunists.
I collected my other half from Edinburgh after she returned from Amsterdam. Unpacking her bags at home she held up a pair of skimpy knickers which wouldn't have fit over her knees, never mind her arse, and said "WTF?" She'd picked up the wrong, but identical, case from the carousel. Fortunately the right owner had put a printed A4 sheet inside with all her details, and a phone number, so swapping the cases over involved a short road trip to her home.
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no pics )Happened to me last year. Vegas-LHR-Manchester, other half's bag made it all the way to Manchester but mine got off in London and stayed there for a day. I suspect the Vegas-LHR leg running late meant the baggage handlers didn't get enough time to load the Manchester plane.
BA just gave me a reference number and the name of their courier company and said it would be with me soon. 27 hours after I got home my bag arrived.
Very relieved it was the homeward leg it went missing on though as it would have had to do a road trip round California to get to me.
BA just gave me a reference number and the name of their courier company and said it would be with me soon. 27 hours after I got home my bag arrived.
Very relieved it was the homeward leg it went missing on though as it would have had to do a road trip round California to get to me.
Happened on a trip to Lanzagrotty once. The suitcase that went AWOL had a few baby formula cartons in it that burst at some point, and according to the baggage tracking thing it spent a couple of days at some end of the line African airport before finding its way back to Blighty a couple of days after we got back. You could smell the ripe, baby milk cheese from about 10 metres away from the courier's van, it was RANK. We just bought new stuff at the time and the insurance paid for all that and the subsequent destruction of the suitcase and everything in it.
Few years back, flew from Sofia to Abu Dhabi, via Athens and Doha. Bulgarian Air from Sofia (not the most efficient of airlines) then Qatar for the other legs. Delay out of Athens meant we were late into Doha and just 20 mins for the connecting flight at a gate a near as dammit the opposite end of the airport to where we had arrived. Me and four other passengers legged it and only just made the connection.
I'd resigned myself to my bag not arriving with me in Abu Dhabi so mightily impressed when it turned up and the first to arrive!
KLM however managed to loose my bag on a flight from Amsterdam to Houston. Was only schedule to be there a day but the bag did eventually turn up the same time I'd returned from buying some new clobber!
I'd resigned myself to my bag not arriving with me in Abu Dhabi so mightily impressed when it turned up and the first to arrive!
KLM however managed to loose my bag on a flight from Amsterdam to Houston. Was only schedule to be there a day but the bag did eventually turn up the same time I'd returned from buying some new clobber!
Super Slo Mo said:
Happened to me/us twice.
First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
I can well imagine you could cope for 2 days with the contents of the other 36 bags. First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
oyster said:
Super Slo Mo said:
Happened to me/us twice.
First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
I can well imagine you could cope for 2 days with the contents of the other 36 bags. First time was on arrival in Athens for the Olympics in 2004, my bag turned up a day late, I was a little stinky by this point as it was 40 celsius.
The second was only a couple of weeks ago, 5 of us took 38 bags on a flight. 2 didn't make it, but turned up a couple of days later. Luckily it was nothing essential.
flew to Tenerife and our pram didn't make it with us
we were heading to La Gomera (next island) and ironically enough we only really needed the pram to get the kids to the ferry port
they sent the pram the next day in a taxi, to the ferry port, over on the ferry, about an hours drive up into the mountains to our place - must have cost a fortune
we hardly used it again till we were heading back
we were heading to La Gomera (next island) and ironically enough we only really needed the pram to get the kids to the ferry port
they sent the pram the next day in a taxi, to the ferry port, over on the ferry, about an hours drive up into the mountains to our place - must have cost a fortune
we hardly used it again till we were heading back
Only time it's happened to us, was just after we moved into a new house and we were flying to Florida on Christmas Eve (via Amsterdam). Wife & I had packed our bags ourselves, so my stuff was in my bag and hers in hers. Her bag went missing. Her bag also contained Christmas presents . . .
After many phone calls, after we left the airport, I eventually drove back and picked it up myself on the evening of Christmas Day (no drink for me!). Managed to get change of clothes in Walmart and a borrowed dress off my mother for Christmas Day meal in the local Hilton!
Since then we've always mixed clothes up in the baggage!
After many phone calls, after we left the airport, I eventually drove back and picked it up myself on the evening of Christmas Day (no drink for me!). Managed to get change of clothes in Walmart and a borrowed dress off my mother for Christmas Day meal in the local Hilton!
Since then we've always mixed clothes up in the baggage!
Not had this yet but did have a tense wait at Bolongia (sp) earlier this year as everyone else in the group wandered off with their kit and i was still watching the empty conveyor...
Took another 20 minutes for my bag to appear but was highly amused to see the faces of 4 stroppy blokes hanging around by the Hire Car desk. They hadn't worked out that as the forms only had me as the driver of the car they couldn't book it out until I got there.
Took another 20 minutes for my bag to appear but was highly amused to see the faces of 4 stroppy blokes hanging around by the Hire Car desk. They hadn't worked out that as the forms only had me as the driver of the car they couldn't book it out until I got there.
Puggit said:
KLM does seem to be a reoccurring theme in this thread!
It's happened to me twice, and both times KLM were involved, if not necessarily resposible. First time was Birmingham to Helsinki via Amsterdam, slightly annoying as it was 15C in Birmingham and -15C in Helsinki. It arrived a day late.
Second time Luxembourg to Mexico via Amsterdam. Bags arrive two days later. KLM just never answered any of my requests/questions with this one. Shame I like flying with them otherwise.
Given I fly 120-140 times a year, and the majority 98% by hand luggage, I've been quite unlucky:
Madrid 3 times in 4 weeks in 2006.... thats when I started using hand luggage for work
Mauritius - coming back, it took 2 days to get our bags back
2009 Tanzania - bags arrived 3 days later halfway up the ngorogoro crater(think they got lost in Nairobi)
2009Tanzania - Coming home- 2 days to get bags
2011 Bali to LHR bag returned 3 days later
2013 Havana to LHR - bag returned 2 days later
The system works well, but leaving malaria tablets in the bag on the way to Tanzania was a pain as we had to borrow some... luckily Malarone was only 2euros a pack in Spain, so not the end of the world has it been really lost
Madrid 3 times in 4 weeks in 2006.... thats when I started using hand luggage for work
Mauritius - coming back, it took 2 days to get our bags back
2009 Tanzania - bags arrived 3 days later halfway up the ngorogoro crater(think they got lost in Nairobi)
2009Tanzania - Coming home- 2 days to get bags
2011 Bali to LHR bag returned 3 days later
2013 Havana to LHR - bag returned 2 days later
The system works well, but leaving malaria tablets in the bag on the way to Tanzania was a pain as we had to borrow some... luckily Malarone was only 2euros a pack in Spain, so not the end of the world has it been really lost
Several years ago I flew fom London to Washington (Dulles) on the Concord. I changed to Washington (Reagan) for an onward flight to Lexington Kentucky. On arrival in Washington I was immediately met by a BA customer services person who told me that my luggage had been inadvertantly put onto the same day Jumbo service that left Heathrow before the Concord so I had actually overtaken my luggage! She gave me all the information and said they would get my luggage to me as soon as they could. I gave her my itinery: Lexington, then New York then Boston and then home.
I got to Lexington and bought some clothes. I was then told by BA that my luggage had arrived at Washington but it had then been mistakenly put on plane to Los Angeles (LAX) not Lexington (LEX)! I then proceeded with my itinery and my luggage never caught up with me. I will give 10/10 to BA for keeping me informed on where it was!
For my return flght I arrived at Boston (Logan)and checked in at the club class desk, was asked for my luggage which consisted of various carrier bags with laundry, and the desk person printed off a long list of all the places my luggage had been (it was in New York JFK at the time) and all the calls BA had made to me. She sympathised and I got an upgrade to first; very nice too.
The luggage eventually arrived back at my home delivered by BA some 10 days after I had originally left home.
R.
I got to Lexington and bought some clothes. I was then told by BA that my luggage had arrived at Washington but it had then been mistakenly put on plane to Los Angeles (LAX) not Lexington (LEX)! I then proceeded with my itinery and my luggage never caught up with me. I will give 10/10 to BA for keeping me informed on where it was!
For my return flght I arrived at Boston (Logan)and checked in at the club class desk, was asked for my luggage which consisted of various carrier bags with laundry, and the desk person printed off a long list of all the places my luggage had been (it was in New York JFK at the time) and all the calls BA had made to me. She sympathised and I got an upgrade to first; very nice too.
The luggage eventually arrived back at my home delivered by BA some 10 days after I had originally left home.
R.
Air France used to lose mine all the time. That was work though so not such an issue.
Went on a ski trip with Skiworld a few years back. After being stuck at the arrivals for ages waiting for the luggage we found out that the plane was overweight so they had taken out loads of the ski and snowboard bags. 4 days to get them to us on a one week holiday. I mean, what sort of t
t says 'you know what, all these folk on the ski trip don't need their own gear. We'll just leave it behind'. Never again.
Went on a ski trip with Skiworld a few years back. After being stuck at the arrivals for ages waiting for the luggage we found out that the plane was overweight so they had taken out loads of the ski and snowboard bags. 4 days to get them to us on a one week holiday. I mean, what sort of t
t says 'you know what, all these folk on the ski trip don't need their own gear. We'll just leave it behind'. Never again. Air France used to lose mine all the time. That was work though so not such an issue.
Went on a ski trip with Skiworld a few years back. After being stuck at the arrivals for ages waiting for the luggage we found out that the plane was overweight so they had taken out loads of the ski and snowboard bags. 4 days to get them to us on a one week holiday. I mean, what sort of tt says 'you know what, all these folk on the ski trip don't need their own gear. We'll just leave it behind'. Never again.
Went on a ski trip with Skiworld a few years back. After being stuck at the arrivals for ages waiting for the luggage we found out that the plane was overweight so they had taken out loads of the ski and snowboard bags. 4 days to get them to us on a one week holiday. I mean, what sort of t
t says 'you know what, all these folk on the ski trip don't need their own gear. We'll just leave it behind'. Never again. Gassing Station | Holidays & Travel | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff