The golfer without clubs will get them. AA said they have a ‘team’ of people looking for them, and you know how bad it will look if he can’t play.
There is a piece by a reporter (for a DC paper?) and there are 3 or 4 of the who have no luggage. She say they went to a mall, the guys got shirts and shorts easily, but she couldn’t find anything to fit her non-Brazilian body. Said she bought everything in black and will just rotate black pants and black tshirts for 3 weeks.
Missing baggage seems to have affected other Olympic athletes:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/05/great-britain-kit-bags-missing-rio-olympics-swimming
Some tough stories above. Here’s a funny one. D was deciding between two colleges to which she’d been accepted so she went to admitted student days. One, a small school at which she was going to meet the department to which she’d been accepted, was across the country and the flight required a stop–in other words, a very long travel day. She traveled comfortably, wearing sweats with the name of the other college prominently displayed all down the leg. Her luggage went missing. There was a 1.5 hour drive from the airport to the hotel near the school and we found a 24h Walmart and arrived at midnight. We combed the store to find an outfit she could wear the next day including shoes. It was pretty tough going but she came up with something she felt she would be okay. We arrived at the hotel at 2 in the morning and fell into bed, needing to be at the school at 9 that morning. Lucky D found her luggage outside our hotel room when she woke up. Back to Walmart went all those clothes she had picked up!
I was on a plane in 1979 where one passenger got off in Taiwan instead of continuing on to HI. They took off ALL the luggage of everyone who boarded at the same airport (Hong Kong) and was continuing to Honolulu, just in case she had planted a bomb. The flight continued on to Honolulu and everyone had their luggage delivered to them the next day. That was as close as I’ve come to lost luggage.
I think it helps that we mostly have nonstop flights and get to the airport very early, so there’s no rush getting our bags to the plane. Also, I usually only check my bag on the way home–the rest of the time, I keep my luggage with me on the plane because it contains Rx and medical equipment.
" a reporter (for a DC paper?) and there are 3 or 4 of the who have no luggage. She say they went to a mall, the guys got shirts and shorts easily, but she couldn’t find anything to fit her non-Brazilian body. Said she bought everything in black and will just rotate black pants and black tshirts for 3 weeks."
I have a “non-Brazilian body” and I’ve shopped for and bought clothing in Brazil on several occasions. It’s just clothing. There’s plenty of it in all different cuts. Unless she is plus sized - but that’s harder to find anywhere outside of the US.
Re: #40
Were you referring to this piece?
Baggage later found:
@Ynotgo Our checked luggage was “lost” on a direct, non-stop flight. My guess…it was never put on OUR plane. God knows where it went…it was delivered to us two days after arriving at our destination. Unvleivable.
We do NOT check bags.
We once lost luggage and never got it for our vacation. We had a routing snafu en route to Turks and Caicos, long tedious story, and our luggage never made it. I even bullied my way into the airport’s luggage room twice during the week. We bought a few things at the overly expensive resort store, a few more at a hilariously sketchy local ‘department store’, and every photo from that vacation has us in the same clothes. I looked rather like a streetwalker in a strange outfit of high-heeled sandals and denim miniskirt. We didn’t let it ruin our trip. We came home, I filed a claim, doubtful we’d ever see anything, and four WEEKS later, right before Christmas— a holiday miracle! Our luggage arrived in snowy Wisconsin!
Silver lining-- luggage problems never bum me out now. Never.
My dad had his luggage lost at the beginning of a cruise tour. He was able to borrow an outfit from a friend and wore it the entire time!
Like I said, we avoid checking bags whenever possible. The carry on size for our budget airline to Iceland was dinky, so we checked our bags that are normally carry ons on a non-stop flight. Sure enough, only 4 of our 5 bags arrived on the flight. Mine was delayed by about 36 hours. Apparently because they take some bags off to save some fuel when the flight is fairly full. At least I wasn’t planning on going backpacking, like the person on the same flight whose backpack didn’t arrive.
Note to airlines: It would have been a much nicer experience if you’d just told us when it would arrive. We got no info for 36 hours and then a mysterious message that “your bag is no longer in our tracking system” which turned out to mean they had just delivered it to our hotel.
I always pack at least one change of clothes for each family member in our carryons. I then distribute family member’s clothes between any checked bags so any lost bag would mean some of each person’s clothes would be missing and hopefully have the least impact on our vacation.
When my daughter packed to move cross country for 6 months - I distributed her clothes across her two checked bags (1/2 the underwear in each, 1/2 the socks in each, etc.). This way a lost bag would have the least impact.
I have a distinctive sticker on all our luggage (front and back) and a common yarn on every piece of luggage handle to help easily locate our luggage.
I’ve offered but H has always refused to put his possessions in my carry on and takes his chances checking his luggage. So far, he’s never had any late or lost luggage in his many, many decades of flying.
We’ve overall been very lucky with checked luggage (with the one huge exception!). We almost always carry on (including two two-week trips to Europe), but I must admit I hate schlepping luggage when we have layovers, and that’s why sometimes I check it. And I often do nowadays if they offer it free at the gate (to decrease the number of carry ons crowding the overhead bins-- I hate that free-for-all too) – the risk is low and I love getting rid of it. But H hates to wait at the destination, so sometimes I have to wheedle a bit…
DH has the attitude that he’s a 1K flyer, so he will take full advantage of the baggage allowances. Not me. I go as light as I can. We’ve never lost a bag, though a few have been delayed over the years. Nothing catastrophic. They’ll have to pry my underseat wheelie out of my cold, dead hand before I gate check it. My meds, camera/tech gear and a change of clothes are in there. It’s non-negotiable. OTOH, he brings multiple large dead-tree books. You have a Kindle, dear, use it!