Originally Posted by
Tafflyer
I would file a missing bag report online and ask for the bag to be returned to my permanent address. Bags get misplaced every day and usually quite efficiently returned to their owners.
In theory missing bag claim should be filed with VS, but that is of course impossible as VS will have no record of the missing bag.
He could try to claim with BA pretending he ended up in LHR and could not find his bag on arrival. But that would be fraudulent.