I don’t worry because I only travel with just a carry-on. I haven’t seen a baggage carousels in decades!
1 week ago | 36
I have been travelling by air for about 45 years, always with luggage in the hold, sometimes as often as every 6 weeks and only once had luggage not turn up on schedule (I had checked in very early - classic no no). So I just don’t worry about it too much now.
4 days ago | 1
Mine really didn't once, on a SAA flight from MCR to JNB via CDG. After three days SAA paid me to go to Woolies to buy clothes so I ended up dressed like a Boer farmer. A week later someone found my case and a lot of others in a stray baggage container that had been unloaded and not reloaded at CDG. Merci les mecs!
5 days ago (edited) | 4
It has only happened once in 50 years of travel, but I worry every time until it appears on the carousel.
1 week ago | 12
I was 7 years old in 1978 when United Airlines lost our luggage going from LAX to Boise, ID. We had to buy new clothes, underwear and toiletries. Took them home in pillow cases. My dad wrote on those cases "United Airlines lost our luggage!"
1 week ago (edited) | 14
It’s happened to me before. Thankfully, I was on my way home when it happened. Was flying back from Europe. Got to Chicago and they didn’t have any of our luggage. Flew out of Chicago the next day. They mailed my suitcase to my house a few days later
6 days ago | 2
I don't put anything overly valuable in the suitcase and keep one set of clothes in the personal item. If the airline loses the bag it's inconvenient, but not the end of the world.
1 week ago | 20
It used to happen a lot coming home through Schiphol, the bag would arrive the next day in a van. It happened so regularly that I began to believe my local baggage delivery firm was bunging commissions to the handlers at Schiphol. KLM are much better now, they spent a lot of money and now it's the best airport in Europe, certainly better than any of our poxy old British airports.
5 days ago | 3
Happened several times already. Not that it got lost. Rerouted. One time they delivered it to me. Another time, it miraculously appeared an hour after everyone left
1 week ago | 4
My last Alaskan flight I watched my hard shell suitcase get thrown over the top of the lil cart onto the tarmac and crack. They loaded all the other suit case and then picked mine up and tossed it on the top on the disorganized pile and it fell off again as he took off. My suitcase was purchased for this trip and it was ruined by the time I got to my destination. Thankfully I had a rental car for the month I was there cuz that suitcase was not effective anymore. It was a nightmare getting Alaskan to take responsibility, I was almost arrested in LAX because they were doing some intense gaslighting. They actually asked me "how do we know you didn't bring your suitcase like this?" I'm like "sir, three of the wheels have been broken off and it's cracked in half like am egg, I'm not a psycho!" They gave me a couple garbage bags and a phone number. they eventually paid for my suitcase and I got a $100 voucher.
6 days ago | 2
I don't worry... They have lost it in the past but it has generally turned up a day or so later. You can generally get something sorted out in the interim so although it's a pain it generally isn't a crisis so it isn't worth worrying about every time for the very small minority of times it actually happens. Aware yes, worried no.
6 days ago | 1
It’s already happened to me twice, once back in 1972 when I was returning from the UK. The second time was in 1996 when my mother passed. My dad told me that I handled it so well. Not quite, I sent him to get the car then started banging my fist in the counter, “My mother is dying and my funeral clothes are in that bag” Well at least I always got my bags back. Now I put a tracker on everything: suitcase, carryon, CPAP bag..
6 days ago | 1
I've flown over 2.5 million miles over the years. I've had my suitcase not show up 4 times. Each time it was delivered the next day. Once in London ( direct flight). Once in Seoul. Twice in Evansville Indiana ( last commuter flight of that night after changing planes in Chicago). I've never worried that much about my bag going missing. Always bring a change of underwear and socks in my back pack I take on the plane. The airline baggage claim staff will give you an amenity kit.
6 days ago | 0
I almost always fly direct, so my chances are slim that it won’t be lost or misplaced, but not zero 😅
1 week ago | 3
I airtag all my checked luggage. Absolute lifesaver. Already had to prove my luggage location twice.
6 days ago | 0
I guess "worry" is too strong a term. . . . Let's say I'm "mildly concerned". Very few of my trips involve direct flights but what I always try to do if at all possible is to book connecting flights so that they are at the very least an hour and a half apart.
1 week ago | 2
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Do you worry about your luggage getting lost by the airline?
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