Originally Posted by
rsteinmetz70112
Reading the entire post and taking it as true, I'd say that someone opened the suitcase, stole a bottle of wine and broke another one outside the suitcase to cover the theft, possibly because a supervisor was approaching.
....this was also a suspicion of mine. Especially since a broken bottle was provided with my bag at baggage collection, and I was specifically told "it broke in your suitcase". It was as if they were proving to me the problem. It felt shady because the blame in that scenario is passed to the passenger, as any experienced flier and/or ground staff will know. Wine broken
inside suitcase = passenger fault. But wine breaking
outside suitcase, like my situation? Never, ever heard of this before. And the suitcase was returned to me completely closed and sealed. I fly 150k-300k miles annually. This is not some rookie mistake. Plus, there was a bottle completely missing.
Originally Posted by
rsteinmetz70112
On the other hand I've often transported bottles of wine inside suitcases cushioned only by the clothes in the suitcase with no loss or breakage. Wine bottles are pretty tough and hard to break.
Yup. I fly with wine all the time. From single bottles in bags to entire cases checked as a bag. Never once, ever had an issue. I use containers similar to what FedEx ships in.