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Or 1 in 172 bags, or about 1 bag on every other flight. You're in line at the boarding gate, ready to get on the plane. You checked your bag before going thro
by RandomBacon 7y ago
Or 1 in 172 bags, or about 1 bag on every other flight.
You're in line at the boarding gate, ready to get on the plane. You checked your bag before going through security, so you're happy you don't have to lug it around, lift the heavy monster up, and try to cram it into a small overhead-bin on the plane. However, you notice the gate next to you is boarding as well. Between your flight and the other, one checked bag will go missing. Do you feel lucky?
- iambateman 7y agoWhen you put it that way, it doesn’t square with lived experience. Are the 25M lost or just misrouted? Nearly everyone I know who flies has had a bag misrouted at some point. 1-in-172 seems surprisingly low to me.
- rtkwe 7y agoBag handling errors aren't going to be randomly distributed but heavily effected by airport and airline quality so it makes sense that the actual stats don't match any one person's anecdotal stats. If you live or fly out of an airport with a bad baggage system most people you know are probably using that same airport when they fly.
- lotu 7y agoI'm pretty sure they mean misrouted not lost. Lost makes a better headline.
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