Airlines loosing luggage  

You hear a lot of things going on like that, I would be so scared tio put any of my treasures in a suit case on a plane, never know where it would end up. makes you wonder about those baggage people.

I remember ..years back..travelling and my luggage did not come back to me fo a whole week..and much of it was missing.I didn't do anything about it..since most times my suitcases are packed with thins of very little value;)+

Very sorrowful news, little girl had many things of her for christmas and it lost at this time very shock. I do not loose luggage but my friends on way to Mayanmar lost his luggage at Dhaka Airport then I took much pain to relocate it and redirected to Mayanmar Airport after a week. Lost luggage hardly missing for ever, it can get but time need to search it.

Awwwwwww Rosebug I hope her luggage turns up the poor Child
I am so sorry about this give her hug from me and please let us know if it has turned up

I'm sorry this happened to your granddaughter. Did she have a tag on her bag with her name and telenumber? I know this has happened and she will get it back. Its just the aggravation of it. Please let us know what happens. Hopefully she will have it soon. I have never lost luggage.

This is really terrible rosebug and so sad for your poor granddaughter who was no doubt very distraught by all of it. Our son's luggage was temporarily lost when he was coming home. He checked it in at Vancouver and it was okay at LA, then he went on to Hawaii, but somehow his luggage didn't. It did eventually arrive for which we were all thankful because he had some things in it although his important papers etc were in his carry on luggage. However it took 2 days to arrive by which time he said his clothes smelled something awful, so he threw them out. :)

While I haven't had luggage lost, two times while traveling back and forth from Japan to the United States it was left at the airport for one reason or another. Nothing sucks more than not having luggage for 24+ hours in a foreign country. It was always going from the US to Japan and never the opposite. Japanese folks are very kind and thorough.

I once had a part time job as a baggage handler for United Airlines while I worked full-time as an FAA air traffic controller. I love aviation and I took the PT job right after the FAA cut off the controllers from free flights, so instead United gave them to me as an employee.

Anyhoo, you don't exactly need a degree to work as a baggage handler. There is a background check but most of these people could really care less about getting bags to the right domestic conveyor belt or the international belt/aircraft on-time mostly because they were seriously underpaid for the amount of manual labor we had to do($8-$9 an hour) and they just didn't care. It is also easy for a handler to throw a suitcase on a belt going to the wrong flight on accident as, at least for United at San Francisco International, there is no real monitoring system.

Except for actual aviation enthusiasts, such as soon-to-be pilots and such who work as handlers, many of the employees are poor/ish and might steal or "misplace" a bag as there are many nooks and crannies in the underworld of an airport. I hope this is not the case in your Grand Daughter's situation! Best of luck.

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I feel sad about your grand daughter I hope the airport will deliver it for your grand daughter not to feel bad.

my life was travelling with our 15 month daughter to india last month. The check-in person had taken away her umbrella stroller at the boarding gate promising us that it would be given to her at London. They didnt give it london, nor did she get it in mumbai (not her final destination). the airlines told us that the stroller didnt make it. we got it three days later couriered to us in trivandrum. it was indeed so much trouble.

I dont think that there is some problem in airline or airline theft.
Your grandchild may be careless.
Or the luggage may be misplaced.
We should be very couscous regarding this matter