Originally Posted by
FAA1996
Take a deep breath and don't give up. Chances are they will eventually find your bag. I've gotten a bag back about 1 month after returning from a trip once. In the meantime you can estimate the cost of the bag and your possessions in it. This is pretty standard for any customer/airline claim. Furthermore items you had to buy during your trip you should have all the receipts to also submit for reimbursement.
AA has been pretty good about this in the past. Iberia for example hasn't. Good luck.
My confusion is how to submit a claim for the full contents - I've got a decent estimate based on what I recall being in there - but their form is very clearly asking you to submit items individually and though I started to attempt to say msc for everything but of course they want a receipt (and make you check a box saying you've provided a receipt for any item over 100.)