[QUOTE=sundrop;7515010]
I hate to beat a dead horse, but
Then don't.
1. You need to accept that your the one responsible.
Quoted from the OP:
"flight attendant never returned my (very expensive) hanging items to me
which I left on the plane."
It doesn't sound like he is trying to duck his responsibility to me.
2. Give them a few days/weeks it will appear, all lost and found are issued tracking #'s.
I think you are probably right.
I read this entire thread twice, and I don't understand the need some seemed to feel to pile on the OP. If he altered the OP in a significant way, that would make me think differently. It's my understanding that thread titles cannot be edited. I thought this one was fairly straightforward. I can be a total airhead and have left jackets and other things on planes several times. If the flight attendant gave the passenger the assurance reported, then I think said flight attendant shares
some of the responsibility.
Fortunately, for me, I have always recovered the items left behind, typically within an hour and always within twenty-four hours. Usually this was because an eagle-eyed flight attendant discovered it/them before the plane left the gate for its next leg. The one time it took longer, the airline had a gate agent meet the plane at its next stop and the ga had it checked on a return flight and I picked it up at the airport later that day.