Originally Posted by
switch007
The airline surely has a duty to locate the owner first of all.
Why? If I am foolish enough to leave my property lying around somewhere, why should anyone be under a duty to reunite me with it?
It is surely preferable to have a system in which a fee is payable rather than no system at all, and I can't see any legal reason why BA or the airport should be obliged to take care of lost property. Perhaps it would be best just to think of the fee as a stupidity tax!
