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TWA A380
The TSA in Seattle opened my checked luggage and stole something. This is not the first time it happened. The stuff they stole is not extremely expensive and can be replaced but it is annoying.
What should one do? Report it to the airline baggage office? Report it to the airline as a consumer complaint? Report it to TSA? If so, will TSA retaliate? Booby trap future luggage (like making Ex-Lax brownies so thieves get diarrhea?)
How do you know it was the TSA? It could just as easily have been the baggage handlers.
I had some stuff stolen from my checked luggage on a SEA-DFW flight a few months ago. I filed a report with the Port of Seattle Police, but nothing came of it.
Depending on what was stolen, the airline might compensate you. Call them and file a claim with baggage services. In my case the item taken (a GPS) was excluded, but they gave me a $75 travel voucher as a "courtesy".