Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
It is still a statistically insignificant sample. There is no doubting that you have had some luggage issues with luggage collected at Sydney, however that does not extrapolate out to Sydney Airport having a luggage handling issue nor does it imply that the damage was inflicted at Sydney
It does not. However, when flying A-SYD/SYD-A, B-SYD/SYD-B and A-B/A-B frequently and you never suffer any damage on A-B/B-A but frequently on A-SYD/SYD-A and B-SYD/SYD-B, it becomes more likely that the common link to baggage damage is SYD.
The sample size is large enough to be deemed at least "worth further investigation of possibility that there is a rough baggage handling issue at SYD".
As it shows no sign of improving, I'll soon rack up 200 incidents of damage involving SYD and none at all elsewhere anyway. I'm sure it will reach a statistical significance to your satisfaction pretty soon.
Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Also, I would suggest that if Sydney handlers were nicely damaging luggage, I don't see why they would be just limiting it to incoming luggage. Outgoing luggage would surely be equally fair game
In my case damage certainly has not been limited to incoming luggage at SYD. Outgoing and connecting pieces luggage have also been damaged.
Originally Posted by
Interlude
Would it be too much thread creep to extend talk of baggage woes at SYD to include frequency of missed connections of interlined baggage? Much greater likelihood of this in SYD than anywhere else in my view (allowing for frequency).
I have had no problem with domestic-to-international connection and domestic-to-domestic connection, however, even if we drop the bags off in good time at the QF International to Domestic transfer counter, there have been instances (too frequent) of bags not making the flight. The QF staff members told us on separate occasions that it happens quite often there because the bags often get missed from pick-up from the international terminal and because the pick-up is infrequent, the chance of bags not making the flight ends up increasing. I don't know whether that is indeed the case or not, but we too have been inconvenienced by them.