http://www.vagabondish.com/baggage-handlers-a-species-on-the-brink-of-extinction/ Dubious tips & essential ephemera for today's curious traveler Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.vagabondish.com/baggage-handlers-a-species-on-the-brink-of-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-9729 conair Sat, 09 May 2009 02:40:43 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/baggage-handlers-a-species-on-the-brink-of-extinction/#comment-9729 Will never happen. As a baggage handler, I can tell you right now the logistics of it would not work. You have no idea what goes into how your bags are packed into the aircraft. The reasons why bags go missing is one of 2 reasons. They missed their connecting flight due to a quick turnaround of that flight which can be caused by a number of reasons including shortage of staff or not enough time for connection or 2 human error. With the number of different flights we do, mistakes are going to happen. If you have a decent baggage handling system in place and the right amount of staff, it works well but knowing how the airline industry works, they don't work like that, they prefer to make things harder than it really should. And for the record, we don't go through your bags and take stuff, the reason you sometimes lose stuff is due to terrible packing or a damaged bag, most of the time it's just terrible packing in which case the bags usually bust open and WE have to pick up the mess and repack it properly then shut it down with tape. When you pack your bag next time you travel, do a decent job, contrary to what you might think, we don't like handling your underwear and shampoos ok? Will never happen. As a baggage handler, I can tell you right now the logistics of it would not work. You have no idea what goes into how your bags are packed into the aircraft. The reasons why bags go missing is one of 2 reasons. They missed their connecting flight due to a quick turnaround of that flight which can be caused by a number of reasons including shortage of staff or not enough time for connection or 2 human error. With the number of different flights we do, mistakes are going to happen. If you have a decent baggage handling system in place and the right amount of staff, it works well but knowing how the airline industry works, they don’t work like that, they prefer to make things harder than it really should. And for the record, we don’t go through your bags and take stuff, the reason you sometimes lose stuff is due to terrible packing or a damaged bag, most of the time it’s just terrible packing in which case the bags usually bust open and WE have to pick up the mess and repack it properly then shut it down with tape. When you pack your bag next time you travel, do a decent job, contrary to what you might think, we don’t like handling your underwear and shampoos ok?

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