Originally Posted by
krug
Most of us are pleased when our bags our delayed.
We take with us essential and personal items in our (limited) hand baggage.
We ensure our bags are clearly labelled both inside and out with all the necessary details to re-unite us with our bags asap.
And we have excellent Travel Insurance - so an incident like yours turns into an enormous shopping spree courtesy of Amex.
Though few us us have wives
were we to do so I am sure they would be luxuriating in a nice deep bath we had drawn for them, in a suite at the Four Seasons surrounded by candles and bubbling with Jo Malone Lime Basil and Mandarin bath oil, the room filled with bags bursting with spoils from the Mall.
In fact our would be wives would probably be having a holiday to remember!
Let's get this straight - bag is labeled thoroughly inside and out. BA knows exactly where it is and exactly where I am but cannot seem to figure out how or when to get it to me. Had to take my PC as hand baggage. Found out I was leaving a couple of hours before doing so, so had no time to buy travel insurance. Would never have taken BA nor connected through the UK if there were *any* other routing possible on such short notice. The only really useful part of your otherwise self-centered, useless drivel above is to check to see if my company has a blanket travel insurance policy that covers me when traveling on business.
Unfortunately, I have seen way too many obnoxious, self-serving posts like yours on Flyertalk lately.