Easier said then done. When your 3 children have only the clothes on their backs and we’ve spent a year saving for this trip, it’s a huge inconvenience and violating. Just think if you had a wedding, presentation or important meeting and same thing happens. It’s hours on phone, police report etc. it’s a huge pain in the butt

They told me to get one day after to “expedite” the process. It’s looking as though they both were stolen from carousel at SNA. We arrived 2 mins after it had started and they must have taken straight from chute. Only explanation unless ramp side took them which is again bizarre. What a mess

Aside from luggage tags, you should also put inside your bag, right on top of the cloth a couple of pieces of paper saying "IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS AND PHONE #." You have no idea how easily tags can come off from the bag during handling. Good luck.

Hi all! It’s week 6 and still no bags. Alaska is reimbursing is the value of both. Either they were taken straight off the chute right when they came down or someone accidentally took them and decided not to return or ramp side. I so wish we were on that side but I did think this would ever be a concern at John Wayne plus when I walked up my bag was on the other side so we waited there. Camera angles show nothing suspicious but it was only on the side we were on nothing can be seen from “chute” side. Anyways, thanks for all your responses. Be careful and my advice is to be right at the chute area so you can 100% confirm they were or were not there and no one takes them. 2 bags, same flight, same family. Crazy. We had tags, ribbons etc that were unique to ours and still gone. I guess it’s the world we live in where people are now desperate and scum of earth to steal bags from airport carousels. Lesson learned the hard way. Safe travels

It’s pretty rare but by now they would have found the bags if they were mistagged. Both scanned into carousel supposedly. They had a bag theft a few weeks later but it was a bag that was lingering around after a woman missed her flight. We were right there! Again I wasn’t at the chute per say but I was right there close. They claim they were loaded into carousel but they never made it around to us. It’s very strange I agree.

True. It totally sucks. I know baggage theft is a thing and becoming more of an issue but usually it’s when there are hardly any bags and ppl kind of linger around hoping to score a good one. I guess I’ll never know. Bizarre all the way around. I’ll be carrying on or running to baggage claim to be right in front from now on. Someone mentioned ppl wouldn’t steal kids clothes, they steal bags regardless. Doesn’t matter if it was kids clothes or a bunch of dirty underwear ppl steal for any reason hoping they hit the jackpot.

I think they should bring bag check back in my opinion. It would help the accidental lost or take on accident luggage etc... the airport is more concerned with someone coming into airport with a weapon or worse hence the camera view. Not concerned about luggage. Bag checks although annoying and maybe time consuming would eliminate these issues. We have a lot of checks and securities before we board planes but not after.

My spouse once was missing her bag in LHR. There was a lonely silver bag on the carousel. When she told the staff (Air New Zealand, they were flying LAX-LHR at the time) they asked "is it silver?".

It was, so they took the lonely bag, found the contact information of the owner and called him. He was already well on the way home, so he suggested that it'd be just fine if they brought him his back. They explained very explicitly and clearly that he could get himself back to the airport immediately to return the bag he'd stolen to the woman and baby waiting for it.