On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:03:00 -0700 'Lansbury'
wrote this on rec.travel.air:
>On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:53:27 +0100, z0ned0ut wrote:
>
>>IME the whole airport baggage handling process around the world
>>is poor and subjects baggage to much rough handling and damage.
>>
>
>A very true statement.
>
>>I won't even mention the frequently broken rule where no baggage
>>is supposed to be carried if the owner/passenger is not on board.
>
>There is no such hard and fast rule. There are conditions written into those
>regulations that allow unaccompanied bags to flown.
>
>Two which spring to mind are
>
>1) If the bags miss the original flight and the passenger was on it they may
>be sent unaccompanied on a later flight.
>
>2) They can be sent as cargo.
>
>If the passenger misses the original flight and their boarding pass isn't
>scanned that automatically throws up a mismatch and the bags should be
>removed. But again there are exceptions written into it.
OK Thanks.
I recall a while ago when I returned from Recife via Lisbon, TAP
said they couldn't get me on my scheduled flight to LHR because of
my late arrival at Lisbon, so I had to take a later flight. When I
arrived at LHR I discovered that my baggage had caught the earlier
flight and it was stacked up against a wall with some others ... no
security. Anybody could have picked it up and walked. sheesh.
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