CBC: "Bag missing a month, Air Canada still looking"
Feb 18, 2017, 9:06 am
#1
Suspended
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AC SE100K-1MM, NH, DL, AA, BA, Global Entry/Nexus, APEC..
Posts: 18,877
CBC: "Bag missing a month, Air Canada still looking"
"Bag missing a month, Air Canada still looking
Student takes to Twitter to count the days his bag has been missing"
By Philip Lee-Shanok, CBC News
Posted: Feb 18, 2017 5:00 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...onth-1.3989340
Student takes to Twitter to count the days his bag has been missing"
By Philip Lee-Shanok, CBC News
Posted: Feb 18, 2017 5:00 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...onth-1.3989340
Feb 18, 2017, 9:12 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC 50K, Marriott Lifetime Platinum
Posts: 1,548
I like how he automatically dislikes Air Canada. He flew through ORD thus he flew UA first and then connected to AC. It is possible that UA damaged/lost/sent the bag somewhere else but since AC was the last carrier it is their problem to retrieve the bag and thus their fault.
Was this even mentioned in the article?
Was this even mentioned in the article?
Feb 18, 2017, 9:18 am
#3
Join Date: May 2013
Location: YYT/YYC/TPE
Programs: AC SE, UA, National Exec Elite, Nexus, GE
Posts: 1,810
"Bag missing a month, Air Canada still looking
Student takes to Twitter to count the days his bag has been missing"
By Philip Lee-Shanok, CBC News
Posted: Feb 18, 2017 5:00 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...onth-1.3989340
Student takes to Twitter to count the days his bag has been missing"
By Philip Lee-Shanok, CBC News
Posted: Feb 18, 2017 5:00 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...onth-1.3989340
Feb 18, 2017, 9:18 am
#4
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 2002
Location: YEG
Programs: HH Silver
Posts: 56,442
From the article:
It was a large bag with almost all his clothes, shoes and a laptop with much of his research on it.
If the laptop was of that much value, why risk putting it in a checked bag?
It was a large bag with almost all his clothes, shoes and a laptop with much of his research on it.
If the laptop was of that much value, why risk putting it in a checked bag?
Feb 18, 2017, 9:20 am
#5
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 6,222
If he connected in the ORD then he would have had to walk his bags through customs and then recheck them with Air Canada.
Feb 18, 2017, 9:25 am
#6
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE*2MM. SPG Plat life
Posts: 4,644
I like how he automatically dislikes Air Canada. He flew through ORD thus he flew UA first and then connected to AC. It is possible that UA damaged/lost/sent the bag somewhere else but since AC was the last carrier it is their problem to retrieve the bag and thus their fault.
Was this even mentioned in the article?
Was this even mentioned in the article?
Last edited by Wpgjetse; Feb 18, 2017 at 10:18 am
Feb 18, 2017, 9:26 am
#7
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 6,222
So I guess this is going to become a thread about how he should not have checked his laptop and not about AC losing his bag.
#alternativetopics
#alternativetopics
Feb 18, 2017, 9:28 am
#8
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE*2MM. SPG Plat life
Posts: 4,644
Feb 18, 2017, 9:31 am
#9
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 6,222
So what's the problem with CBC? They're using the wrong facts?
Feb 18, 2017, 9:32 am
#10
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE*2MM. SPG Plat life
Posts: 4,644
No, but AC most likely never lost his bag. I would think his bag was never delivered to AC from the airline that flew the first segment. His bag is most likely in a storage room in Chicago with hundreds of other bags.
Last edited by Wpgjetse; Feb 18, 2017 at 10:18 am
Feb 18, 2017, 9:34 am
#11
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE*2MM. SPG Plat life
Posts: 4,644
Feb 18, 2017, 9:35 am
#12
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 6,222
Because AC never loses bags?
Back to the old days - "it's NEVER our fault!"
You don't think AC would have noticed if they didn't receive a bag they were supposed to have? If that's the case the AC still screwed up.
Last edited by tcook052; Feb 18, 2017 at 9:49 am Reason: merge multiple posts
Feb 18, 2017, 9:47 am
#13
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 2002
Location: YEG
Programs: HH Silver
Posts: 56,442
This thread is about the lost luggage and what was in it since the article mentions it. AC isn't off the hook for not resolving the missing bag in a month but passenger also has to accept some personal responsibility for placing something they value greatly in their checked bag. Passenger has flown before and even admits in the article to having his checked bag go missing previously which makes the decision to put a laptop with so much valuable research material in their bag this trip all the more odd. Merely MHO.
Feb 18, 2017, 9:56 am
#14
Suspended
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AC SE100K-1MM, NH, DL, AA, BA, Global Entry/Nexus, APEC..
Posts: 18,877
Hmmm, why he didn't back up his research or anything else that was "valuable" on his laptop.
Oh never mind. It's about AC and the missing bag.
Oh never mind. It's about AC and the missing bag.
Feb 18, 2017, 10:26 am
#15
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE*2MM. SPG Plat life
Posts: 4,644
So every international airline that flies into ORD "runs" their own connection belt?
>>> No, just the major US airlines.
Then why doesn't AC go to that storage room and look through the "hundreds" of bags?
>>> Because it is not AC's storage room. They would ask the airline that owns the storage room to look for it.
Because AC never loses bags?
>>> NO, AC loses bags.
You don't think AC would have noticed if they didn't receive a bag they were supposed to have? If that's the case the AC still screwed up.
>>> What? SO, you are saying AC should hold flights for hours to see if connecting or airline doing the connecting baggage can find the missing bag? I don't think so.
>>> No, just the major US airlines.
Then why doesn't AC go to that storage room and look through the "hundreds" of bags?
>>> Because it is not AC's storage room. They would ask the airline that owns the storage room to look for it.
Because AC never loses bags?
>>> NO, AC loses bags.
You don't think AC would have noticed if they didn't receive a bag they were supposed to have? If that's the case the AC still screwed up.
>>> What? SO, you are saying AC should hold flights for hours to see if connecting or airline doing the connecting baggage can find the missing bag? I don't think so.