Originally Posted by Aviatrix

Why shouldn't they send it to Croatia?

When baggage gets lost it's the airline's responsibility to send it to wherever the passenger is at the time it is found... whether it's five minutes from the airport, five hours from the airport or the other side of the world. It's not uncommon for people to travel from A to B to C using different airlines or other modes of transport; airlines send on baggage to other towns and countries all the time.

(I had no problem getting my baggage sent from Detroit to Ottawa some years ago, despite having made the journey by train myself. And I've heard of other cases where baggage was sent on over hundreds or thousands of miles)