Originally Posted by
kimala koala
For me, getting to the carousel quickly to SPOT my luggage emanates from a fear that someone else will take it. I don't have a need to whip it off the minute I see it, just the fact I can view it is enough. If the line is too thick, I'll wait no problem at all.
I'm interested to know. Has anyone had their luggage taken from the carousel? To be honest, that is a real fear of mine. If someone takes it, there is little recourse apart from relying on one's travel insurance for reimbursement. When flying, I am always compelled to get to that carousel asap but I never impinge upon another persons space.
Had a small issue several years ago at LHR, Mom and I are just getting to the belt and see her bag coming around the far side of the belt. We wait for the bag to come around again, lose sight of the bag and it never comes around again. I see someone leaving with a red bag on a trolley, and I send her flying over to look at the red bag, well low and behold it is not hers, but someone had taken her big red bag off the belt, then realized it was not theirs and just left it on the floor. Had a few brief moments of panicked thoughts of a week in London with no clothes.
I actually had someone take one of my bags once, he got all the way home before he opened the bag and realized that my clothes were not his (or so he said, I often wonder what his wife thought
). He had to drive it back to the airport, pick up his luggage and the airline then delivered my luggage back to me.
I am very careful of keeping an eye on all my bags as they come down the belt. Sometime in the thick of people, it is very difficult.