Originally Posted by
gilbane
As an update I called again this morning and the agent was much more helpful this time. She traced the next destination (several previous agents had told me this was not possible) and called and sent a message to the airport there. Nothing has turned up yet but I'm more hopeful now that someone seems to be paying a little attention. Apparently the previous agent entered a file as misc. lost clothing with no description - it hopefully is more descriptive now.
That sounds like the "call again" policy has worked.
Hopefully, their lost and found system works as well.
On one hand, there may just possibly be a tag (or napkin) on the hanger with your seat number on it.
On the other hand, since you often have crew on the plane on the short turn-arounds between flights while it's being cleaned, it may be that the cleaners didn't find it at the airport where you deplaned; for all you know, that jacket went on several flights after that, so wherever it got returned, it may be difficult/impossible to trace it back to your flight and you (that assumes they even try).
So I think color and label/tailor/size of the jacket would be helpful information as well to provide them.
Now if you would not only get your jacket back, but get the frequent flyer miles that jacket would have flown :-)