Originally Posted by
Kvet01
no idea how that works in Barcelona - I am fairly sure that they are often not calling in the US; if they are right you probably should complain with the airport, but maybe they are wrong; also twelve passengers seems a large number. .
From my experience.
At Amsterdam Schiphol and at Tel-Aviv Ben-Gurion the procedure is:
a. Change of gate is anounced at least twice in 3 languages (Local, destination and English);
b. Personal call including the passenger's name, flying to (destination) urging passenger to report at the specified gate immediately (3 languages);
c. A warning to (passenger's name) that her/his baggage will be unloaded if passenger does not arrive now; and
d. (Passenger's name), flying to (destination), your lauggaage was unloaded, please report to the information desk.
We were told by BCN personnell that at BCN the rule is that change of gate should be anounced at least twice.
We also winessed an argument between Vueling personnell and BCN personell, blaming each other for not anouncing...
Originally Posted by
Kvet01
[I]I don't know how this constitutes a security breach - this seems an isolated and certainly unexpected happening, and I don't think your average malicious passenger is hoping that his (they mainly seem to be male) luggage is taken and he wouldn't have to fly because of this type of incident.
I indeed would have expected the luggage to be unloaded - I assume so would the purportedly malevolent non-flyer. It happened to me quite a few times the last few years that my luggage was NOT on my flight, but on a later one - and I didn't find that out until I was waiting at the luggage belt.
Yesterday, or the day before, a lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to North America (I don't rememember the exact destination) had to land in Island because an un accompanied piece of luggage was some how detected aboard.
(I can't understand your remark concerning gender. My wife and myself were both in this incident, She is certainly female)