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How to Stop Airlines Losing Your Checked Baggage is an article written by the AFF editorial team:
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Without the 'smallest of bags at the claim belt' part - this is indeed the correct answer: don't check a bag when not needed. It is the only way to stop airlines losing your luggageHow to stop airlines losing your checked luggage... don't check a bag when not needed.
Sure people will get fired up by my comment however I sometime see the smallest of bags at the claim belt.
How to stop airlines losing your checked luggage... don't check a bag when not needed.
Sure people will get fired up by my comment however I sometime see the smallest of bags at the claim belt.
Exactly the same thing happened to me many moons ago when the Q bag tags were introduced. I didn't like them initially (preferred the rectangular credit card sized bag tags you could write your name/phone number on etc that slid apart/together) but thought I'd do the right thing and use them for a SYD-BNE-CNS trip. Arrived CNS and no bag. Straight to baggage and it wasn't even a question... "Hi there, you used the new Q Tags right?"Someone from Qantas baggage services discouraged me from using Q bag tags for tight connecting flights, because they "require a manual scanner so are sorted last if the team are in a rush".
This was after the only time my bag has been lost domestically, and it wasn't a particularly tight connection at MEL.
I have otherwise had success with them, and rarely have issues connecting Syd, Mel, BNE or adl (ex per) other than this one time. In any case they're almost always on the bag as an ID tag.Exactly the same thing happened to me many moons ago when the Q bag tags were introduced. I didn't like them initially (preferred the rectangular credit card sized bag tags you could write your name/phone number on etc that slid apart/together) but thought I'd do the right thing and use them for a SYD-BNE-CNS trip. Arrived CNS and no bag. Straight to baggage and it wasn't even a question... "Hi there, you used the new Q Tags right?"
Never lost a bag before that and haven't since. Q Tags have been used a grand total of one time.
Without the 'smallest of bags at the claim belt' part - this is indeed the correct answer: don't check a bag when not needed. It is the only way to stop airlines losing your luggage
As for every other time when you need to check in luggage - the usual applies:
- if connecting flights are involved, and not with the same airline, or at a reliable hub - try and book the flights with a longer transit time in between
- check in early
- priority tags if possible (if premium class or higher tier membership)
- always, always - take photos of your luggage before or as you check in
- always have them clearly labelled both inside, and on the outside with a strong luggage tag with your info
Insurers state in their policies or claims information that they wont accept photos of bag contents as proof of the loss.I would add to How to make things easier if your checked luggage goes missing (possibly ultimately lost) - take sequential photos as you pack your bag. If you have to make an insurance claim, this makes it much easier to remember (and if necessary, help prove) exactly what was in the bag, and if the clothing brands are expensive - this fact.
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Its not locked?I always put a large printed sheet inside the luggage with my name, country, city, phone number and email on it.
They’d go down in a ball of flames if you took them to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Regardless of what they say they will accept as evidence of loss, your testimony as to your loss constitutes admissible evidence. But yes, having receipts is so much easier.Insurers state in their policies or claims information that they wont accept photos of bag contents as proof of the loss.
They say the only thing they accept for proof of ownership is a receipt.
some people have said insurers have accepted a Stat Dec of the inventory.
having made a few travel insurance claims recently, the one thing i have discovered is reciepts rule the day. If event is proven and receipt is presented, they just pay up no questions
They will always open it if they lose the airline tags or your own luggage tags on the outside. If there's no contact info it eventually gets sold off. This is a last resort tactic.Its not locked?
Perhaps things have changed...With the airtags some airlines like JAL do not allow you to have them in your luggage. So always check the airlines policy