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Sure, happened to me last year in Europe.
by thecopy 8y ago
Sure, 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 agoWhy? You think they just blindly load all of the bags up without putting them through any kind of security screening? What about suicide bombers?
- gaius 8y agoSecurity screening isn’t perfect. Water bottles are banned now because there’s no process to screen just the content for example. The shoe bomber and the pants bomber both got on board despite active screening at the gates.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoHappens pretty often - by accident, that is. My luggage went on a trip all of its own (someone loaded it into a plane bound elsewhere than I was going), so I was peppered by e-mails where it's now for the next few days, while it was misrouted to all sorts of weird places "oops, lost it again! no wait, there it is! no wait, lost it again!". Got it back at last, no damage.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoWhy not? It's been through the same security as everything else, including all the air freight that's also on board that nobody seems to think about. Usually they'll offload it as a convenience for the passenger but not always if time doesn't allow.
- leesalminen 8y agoHappened to me on a domestic flight in the US this year on American Airlines.