Stolen or Lost Bags at John Wayne/OC airport
Jun 4, 2019, 8:15 am
#46
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Yes and no--I've seen the bag matching over there, yet they didn't check mine at all. I've noticed the rules over there are often not enforced on foreigners, or enforced differently. (Airport security--something puzzling on the x-ray. They ask me about it rather than go looking. SIL {Chinese} is there also, they question something in her bag and simply go looking for it. It's actually good they asked me, I immediately figured out the object was a box of batteries packed in the bottom of my camera bag that was inside the bag they were looking at. Unless they got lucky they would have ended up unpacking the whole thing trying to find them.)
Jun 4, 2019, 2:02 pm
#47
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I agree with bringing secure bag matching back. If airlines are going to charge to check a bag, then they should make sure they are secure, especially if you are delayed in getting to the carousel or God forbid, your bags are misrouted and end up on a carousel in an airport you are not even at.
Jun 4, 2019, 2:05 pm
#48
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Agreed! It would take the thefts and “accidental taken bags” out of the equation since now thieves target airport baggage claims and with so many ppl around you never know who is legit or who a random person is. I rarely even know who is on our flights when I travel. We were at carousel within 2 mins and still stolen.
Jun 7, 2019, 12:17 pm
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I think they meant why not have baggage claim in a secured area that you’d have to have boarding passes to access like the we do when we get to airport. I think anyway. Theft seems to be an issue at airports but apparently not enough to make baggage claims secured areas. This situation has never happened to me and now reading more articles I can see it’s an issue but it’s sporadic.
Jun 9, 2019, 11:11 am
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I rarely check bags lately - probably haven't used baggage claim at PDX in a year - but I have to check bags tomorrow (given the amount of items I'm toting) on my way from IAH to PDX (via SEA). Hopefully they get there (free $25 voucher for bags delivered in 25 minutes would be great too).
Jun 9, 2019, 12:23 pm
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Occasionally I see homeless people at PDX jump right off the light rail and saunter on into baggage claim, which is literally about 50 yards from the light rail station. I've wondered why they come up there (maybe to use the bathrooms? gives them something to do?), but this thread made me realize there are also other possible incentives for them.... free bags to tote their items around town! When I was a kid in the 1980s, we never made it out of HOU or IAH baggage claim without our matching tags. The airport employed attendants to check everyone's tags, and there were railings around the baggage area.
I rarely check bags lately - probably haven't used baggage claim at PDX in a year - but I have to check bags tomorrow (given the amount of items I'm toting) on my way from IAH to PDX (via SEA). Hopefully they get there (free $25 voucher for bags delivered in 25 minutes would be great too).
I rarely check bags lately - probably haven't used baggage claim at PDX in a year - but I have to check bags tomorrow (given the amount of items I'm toting) on my way from IAH to PDX (via SEA). Hopefully they get there (free $25 voucher for bags delivered in 25 minutes would be great too).
Jun 9, 2019, 12:27 pm
#55
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Pdx has a big problem with theft as I found out through all of this. That is where we flew out from but not John Wayne it’s pretty rare. They did have one around May 9 and the guy was in and out in about 2 mins. My situation is different with someone taking straight from chute and right when it started. PDX has the max train and it is an issue although I haven’t had an issue there. Easier to see your bags at Pdx as belt is one level not coming down a hill like John Wayne. Sad we have to be on lookout for theft of bags now.
Jun 9, 2019, 12:50 pm
#56
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When airports such as LGA have tried implementing bag tag matching, complaints go through the roof. The biggest complaint is time.
It is likely easier & cheaper to pay the miniscule number of claims for bags stolen off the carousel than it is to build barricades and pay people to check tags.
It is likely easier & cheaper to pay the miniscule number of claims for bags stolen off the carousel than it is to build barricades and pay people to check tags.
Jun 9, 2019, 4:00 pm
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