Originally Posted by
guv1976
Are your bags lost, or delayed? An airline's compensation responsibilities are different for delayed bags versus lost bags:
"What are airlines’ responsibilities when your bag is delayed?
"Airlines are required to compensate passengers for reasonable, verifiable, and actual incidental expenses that they may incur while their bags are delayed - subject to the maximum liability limits.
"Airlines are not allowed to set an arbitrary daily amount for interim expenses. For example, an airline cannot have a policy that they will reimburse a passenger up to only $50 for each day that a passenger’s bag is delayed."
Source:
https://www.transportation.gov/lost-...amaged-baggage
Well after 5 days the bags are considered lost and at this point there are many thousands of travelers who have not received their bags for 5 days.
Perhaps they can somehow weasel around the rules here by saying if the flight didn't actually run and was canceled, despite bag being checked, the rules are different too...?