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After a long conversation I had at a music festival with a guy who works luggage at the local international airport I'm frankly blown away any bags ever make it
by pr0zac 4y ago
After a long conversation I had at a music festival with a guy who works luggage at the local international airport I'm frankly blown away any bags ever make it to their destination.
I know we all concentrate on the failures in the system like this but the logistics involved in getting bags off a plane then delivered to dozens of different connecting flights while the same thing happens on dozens of other planes as well as adhoc "checked at the gate" bags getting added in with everything being correctly sorted, grouped, and transported 99% of the time, often with less than an hour to do it, is kind of amazing.
- jessriedel 4y agoThe logistics of FedEx overnight service are similar, and even more complicated in some respects: A package enters the system from any of bajillions of locations around the country/world (many more than there are airports), including FedEx stores, residential homes, major businesses, and random convenience store parters. The package makes at least half a dozen stops with incredibly tight connection times, traveling by land and air. Sometime deliveries are canceled or re-directed while en route. Yet FedEx seems to have a way lower rate of missing packages.