Everyday, thousands of travellers come to a town in Alabama to sift through lost bags filled with everything from wedding dresses to medieval suits of armour.
The airlines specifically tell you not to check valuables like that. While I agree yes, they should be held liable and try to see out the owners of lost luggage… what happens when they can’t? Trash or thrift resale, you pick. Personally I’m going with the latter.
So photographers/videographers, musicians, artists, tradesmen, etc shouldn’t travel? Or they should only travel with a backpack and a duffel even if their kit takes up more room than that?
As for what is to be done: give it to charity–don’t support a system that provides a profit means for both airlines and an unnecessary middleman.
I don’t know what else to tell you, the airlines tell you specifically not to check those items.
I fly monthly for work and I don’t check anything that isn’t replaceable, so basically just clothes and shoes. There is zero chance I would ever check my camera rig. If I did lose my bag, I can tell the airline exactly where it is from the tracking tag, and they can easily contact me because my contact info is found multiple places on and in the luggage.
This luggage is abandoned. The airline could not find the owner.
The airlines specifically tell you not to check valuables like that. While I agree yes, they should be held liable and try to see out the owners of lost luggage… what happens when they can’t? Trash or thrift resale, you pick. Personally I’m going with the latter.
So photographers/videographers, musicians, artists, tradesmen, etc shouldn’t travel? Or they should only travel with a backpack and a duffel even if their kit takes up more room than that?
As for what is to be done: give it to charity–don’t support a system that provides a profit means for both airlines and an unnecessary middleman.
I don’t know what else to tell you, the airlines tell you specifically not to check those items.
I fly monthly for work and I don’t check anything that isn’t replaceable, so basically just clothes and shoes. There is zero chance I would ever check my camera rig. If I did lose my bag, I can tell the airline exactly where it is from the tracking tag, and they can easily contact me because my contact info is found multiple places on and in the luggage.
This luggage is abandoned. The airline could not find the owner.