Many of us have to a greater or lesser extent suffered from lost luggage at the destination airport (thankfully, touch wood, I've never lost luggage in 20 years of business and holiday flying). Anxiety normally prevails at the luggage carousel...will I see my luggage appear on the carousel, or not...
So I've been thinking about the following 2 situations:
- if a pax has not boarded an aircraft, his/her luggage is removed from the hold. How would the authorities know that the missing pax's luggage is in fact in the hold, before looking for it? Has it ever happened that a missing pax's luggage was NOT found inside the aircraft's hold (i.e. it got lost on its way to the aircraft hold)?
- if luggage presence in the hold is tracked (which it probably isn't), surely each pax on a flight can be told prior to take-off that his/her luggage has been loaded, or not?
I guess in reality, luggage is only registered upon check-in, and during its voyage from check-in to being put into the a/c's hold, it can be mislaid or stolen. The pax would only become aware of this when the carousel is switched off at the destination airport, and his/her luggage has not appeared...?
So I've been thinking about the following 2 situations:
- if a pax has not boarded an aircraft, his/her luggage is removed from the hold. How would the authorities know that the missing pax's luggage is in fact in the hold, before looking for it? Has it ever happened that a missing pax's luggage was NOT found inside the aircraft's hold (i.e. it got lost on its way to the aircraft hold)?
- if luggage presence in the hold is tracked (which it probably isn't), surely each pax on a flight can be told prior to take-off that his/her luggage has been loaded, or not?
I guess in reality, luggage is only registered upon check-in, and during its voyage from check-in to being put into the a/c's hold, it can be mislaid or stolen. The pax would only become aware of this when the carousel is switched off at the destination airport, and his/her luggage has not appeared...?
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