| ▲ | EuanReid 10 hours ago |
| Headline's a bit misleading. They've never permanently lost a bag, and well done to them for that, but they've certainly lost them for periods of time. Just eventually found them. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Permanent losses are pretty uncommon in general. Good for them for minimizing but having bags on the next flight or delayed for a couple/three days is way more common. Probably would have to be stolen which is rare, especially in Japan, I assume or end up in some weird location without a scan. Was flying into Narita once and I had checked luggage in part because I was carrying an award for a Japanese customer. I was sort of given a "we'll get back to you sooner or later." At which point I explained the situation to a supervisor I think and was much fluttering around and got the bag the next day. |
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| ▲ | bombcar 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Most of the "permanent losses" are because the passenger gives up or doesn't care terribly much - hence all the luggage at the airline outlet stores. Most airlines do eventually find the bag, and if you kept in touch they'll usually even get it to where you are, even if you've since returned. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | I honestly have no idea how those dynamics work. At some point, the airline presumably pays, travel insurance does, or a combination of the two. At some point if it's just a bunch of old travel stuff, I guess I can see a customer shrugging, collecting the money, and dropping the whole thing. | | |
| ▲ | notahacker 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm now imagining a situation in which a customer at the point of successfully making an insurance claim to pay for the nice new clothes they've bought themselves is infuriated to receive an email informing them that Kansai airport has found their luggage and will endeavour to deliver it to a hotel anywhere within the world within two days... | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | The customer has presumably been paid. If they're smart there's nothing or very little in the suitcase that can't just be replaced. The airline/insurance has paid out and just wants the claim to go away. As a side-note, had a small kitchen fire with smoke damage last year and it was pretty obvious that, even though they were reasonably generous, the insurance adjuster, cleaning people, movers, etc. just wanted the whole process to go away so they could move on. They objected a bit to a few claims but, for the most part, spending $50K was nothing compared to the claims being reopened. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Once the insurance adjuster is satisfied that you're not scamming them, they're often quite flexible and lenient. I've only ever had luggage delayed once, they gave me a little bag of toiletries and a couple hundred bucks and a few days later delivered the luggage; never demanded the money back. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've had luggage delayed many times relative to the amount I actually check luggage. There were a few insurance policy things that my adjuster pushed back on (no code upgrades) and there were a number of things that would have just been silly for me not to pay for when walls were being repaintedd and opened up. There was a fire inspector because of the size of the claim. But it was pretty reasonable overall--although of people wouldn't have had the available cash to do the whole job as it really needed o be done. And, given that a couple of contractors, saved my butt in the middle of the winter, I wasn't going to push back too hard. |
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| ▲ | moufestaphio 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| yeah, I've seen this being tossed around, but they definitely lost MY BAGS.
Eventually I got them, but they were lost for 5 days or so. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | And that's not a permanent loss. It may screw up your trip to a greater or lesser degree but I try to build in buffers at least for a shorter delay when I can. I have also had a few multi-day delays--on of which just caught my guided hiking trip with like an hour to spare. And I had already bought a new duffle bag worth of stuff as best I could. | | |
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| ▲ | fsckboy 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| the article does not discuss what you are saying, do you have an alternative source that tells this true story? |
