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Whenever I've checked my luggage, it has more often than not been at least temporarily misplaced, if not permanently lost. I mean this literally -- more than 50
by rewgs 3y ago
Whenever I've checked my luggage, it has more often than not been at least temporarily misplaced, if not permanently lost. I mean this literally -- more than 50% of the time, something has gone wrong.
I know that I'm a data point of one and am really just unlucky, but regardless, I am quite simply never checking my luggage ever again.
I have to imagine that if carry-ons were banned, and thus the amount of checked baggage increased, more luggage would be lost. Also, more time would presumably be spent waiting on the tarmac while the luggage is loaded, so all this "saved" time would really just amount to more time spent sitting there doing nothing.
So yeah, this suggestion is a hard pass from me.
- mindslight 3y agoIt sounds like you have a straightforward way to get a lot of free clothes.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoEh. The one time my bag was lost, I gave up after around a month of back and forth trying to get the money for the lost bag. It just wasn’t worth my time.
- rewgs 3y agoYes, arriving in a destination with zero clothes and spending all my time trying to get my stuff back instead of enjoying whatever I'm there to do is totally a great thing that I'd love to experience again because it might result in me having to purchase all my clothes again an unspecified time later. Absolute win.
- mindslight 3y agoI've had this happen to me once and I did spend way too much of my trip time coaxing their broken system to get me my bag back. As I understand it, the right thing to do is go shopping for the clothes you need as soon as your bag is missing, and then request reimbursements for those costs. This is congruent with how the claim process worked out for me. Although perhaps airlines have been working on weaseling out of their liability in the name of cost cutting.
- rs999gti 3y agoI'm sorry you've lost baggage and checked items. But I've been checked bag gang for life. It's so easy to walk around an airport and board a plane without dragging carry ons behind you. The worst issue I've had, knock on wood, is broken roller bag wheels, but the airlines have always compensated me a new luggage credit.