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If the contents of the bag are worth $500 the airline isn't spending >$500 worth of effort to track it down and return it to its owner. It makes sense to just r
by paxys 3y ago
If the contents of the bag are worth $500 the airline isn't spending >$500 worth of effort to track it down and return it to its owner. It makes sense to just reimburse them and move on.
Now the question is what happens to the bag floating in the ether. Option 1 is sending it to a landfill. Option 2 is cracking it open and reselling/reusing the stuff in it. There are plenty of ethical arguments in either one's favor, but it isn't as obvious as everyone is making it seem.
- plasticchris 3y agoI once had my check bag lost and it arrived a couple of months later via a courier. This was in ‘08
- paxys 3y agoOkay? The article is talking about bags that weren't found in over 3 months.
- plasticchris 3y agoYeah, I was responding to the point about cost. A courier driving for 4 hours to get to me probably cost them at least 500$
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