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In 1999 I had bags in the hold but had to respond to a page, by the time I had resolved the incident I had missed the flight. I was super-stressed but the check
by gaius 8y ago
In 1999 I had bags in the hold but had to respond to a page, by the time I had resolved the incident I had missed the flight. I was super-stressed but the check-in girl just laughed and said, get the next one, it’s fine. And it was. Can you imagine that now?
- sunshinerag 8y agowhats a page? why are you responding to a page in a book?
- jalk 8y agoYes that is very common, unless you buy the cheapest tickets available. I'm sure people in 1999 would be shocked to learn that a ticket from Berlin to London is available for around 50 USD if you don't have luggage and expect to actually board the planes you have booked.
- saiya-jin 8y agoYeah, you get quantity, and lose quality. I've been overbooked few times (so sorry, please fly tomorrow unless we overbook you again, we don't care what this causes for your plans/further travel, and here go through crazy online forms and month-long process just to get those 250 euro you are entitled to by EU law). Or cancelling flights for 'bad weather' reason, when all other flights departed just fine from the airport - in this case, airline doesn't have to compensate anything (freakin' Easyjet - I realized I am not rich enough and don't have enough extra vacation to use such a crappy random-quality services).
- thecopy 8y agoSure, happened to me last year in Europe.
- gaius 8y agoThey flew bags in the hold for a passenger who had checked in but not boarded?
- pjmlp 8y agoYep, it happened to me during a Lufthansa strike a couple of years ago. They distributed us and our luggage across a couple of planes flying out to Vienna. My luggage arrived on an earlier flight and had to hear from the Austrian police, while I explained that it was Lufthansa's own doing.
- madcaptenor 8y agoSometimes this happens even without a strike. Once I flew San Francisco - Houston - Little Rock with about a four-hour layover in Houston. When I got to Little Rock my bag wasn't on the baggage carousel - it turned out they'd put my bag on an earlier flight. (I wasn't on that earlier flight because the long connection turned out to be a lot cheaper than a short one.)
- astura 8y agoYes?? This happens literally all the time. What's to be surprised about?
- gaius 8y agoAny recent flight I’ve taken they delayed the plane while they offloaded the bags. I am genuinely surprised they they flew them anyway these days.
- astura 8y agoThat doesn't make sense, how would they ever get misdirected bags to you if bags weren't ever allowed to fly without their owners being onboard? It happens all the time that bags get to a flight that the passenger misses and passengers get to a flight that bags miss. Not remotely unusual. It's happened to me recently too.
- gaius 8y agoI guess it’s different if the airline does it rather than if a passenger potentially engineers a situation that their bags fly but they are safely on the ground
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoYes? It's fairly common.
- JadeNB 8y ago> In 1999 I had bags in the hold but had to respond to a page, by the time I had resolved the incident I had missed the flight. I was super-stressed but the check-in girl just laughed and said, get the next one, it’s fine. And it was. Can you imagine that now? It actually literally happened to me in November 2001, even for an international flight: I missed my flight due to a 3-hour line at MDW, but my luggage had already boarded. I was assured by everyone concerned that it would be offloaded, but it flew ahead, and was (somewhat miraculously) still waiting for me at the luggage claim when I got there over 12 hours later.