Confessions of an airline baggage handler

[Sprucegoose]

How much are you willing to bet on that? Zip technology doesn't exactly change much between bags. The size of the teeth might change, but remember that regardless of any other factors a human needs to be able to move the zipper along the bag with relative easy, otherwise the whole notion of a zip doesn't work.

IMHO, once you hand your case over to the person at the check in counter, you've now lost all control over what happens to the contents of the case. Realistically it's only because the vast majority of baggage handlers are in fact honest hardworking people that your bag and it's contents make it to your destination.

A determined enough person will get into your bag, no matter how well it's locked. As such I always treat locks as something you do to protect your bag from accidentally coming open, since a determined enough person will get in.

Of course the other deterrent with locks is if a would be thief has a choice between two bags, say yours and one other, they will no doubt go for the easiest to get into / the one which looks like it would have the most valuables. Your lock does not need to make your bag secure, it just needs to make it look more secure than everyone elses bag.

Agree. Fly to JNB 50 times and let me know how you get on!!!

I was actually going to pack a snake at one stage .,,,that lot hate snakes .,,.,

 

[drivatruk]

Would that have been an electric ......




Toothbrush?

Baggage screening said something different. Some people had several toothbrushes. You could tell them by their smiles.