What if you can't wait for the luggage?
Dec 30, 2020, 2:58 pm
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
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What if you can't wait for the luggage?
I might have to travel on a legal, yet short connection at FCO. It's 1h20m.
I am worried that the luggage might not arrive with me (it's happened before) and I might not be able to wait at LHR to report it.
Can one just leave and report it over the phone?
I am worried that the luggage might not arrive with me (it's happened before) and I might not be able to wait at LHR to report it.
Can one just leave and report it over the phone?
Jan 1, 2021, 6:13 pm
#2
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Heraklion, Greece
Posts: 7,565
I guess you forgot what you had to do last time your luggage arrived "late". Well, you have to fill in a lengthy form which, a procedure that includes a "photographic line-up" of several types of bags, plus scanning of your tag. I'm sure that they'll tell you no if you ask them, so the question is not whether, but rather, how you can report it and, most importantly, how you'll retrieve it the next day, especially since you will not have any written confirmation of your bag being... your own bag! It's definitely looking for trouble...
Jan 8, 2021, 7:59 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CPT,AMS
Posts: 4,412
I guess you forgot what you had to do last time your luggage arrived "late". Well, you have to fill in a lengthy form which, a procedure that includes a "photographic line-up" of several types of bags, plus scanning of your tag. I'm sure that they'll tell you no if you ask them, so the question is not whether, but rather, how you can report it and, most importantly, how you'll retrieve it the next day, especially since you will not have any written confirmation of your bag being... your own bag! It's definitely looking for trouble...
That being said how would one even know the bag is "delayed" and didn't arrive in LHR without waiting and reporting it, I doubt there will be a long queue to report it so that would be extra 10 minutes on top of probably 30-45 minutes of waiting for all luggage to come out and verify the bag isn't there?