QF staff buy lost items

[Dave Noble]

It is hardly relevant to compare the police and qantas. The problem is this can be considered to be theft. There was a case of some people who found a sum of cash in a house shortly after they purchased it. They were charged with theft because they just kept the money.

Absolutely. No different to someone finding $50 on the pavement, picking it up and keeping it

Obviously it is different for companies that can set up a lost property process to deal with the issue of reporting found items to police. But based on some of the quotes from the story one would have to question if qantas is following such process or even the effectiveness of the process in fairly considering the rightful owners.

Indeed. QF do have a lost property process and I doubt, regardess of inferrences , that they just collect and sell the items but rather keep them for the required period for those who report it. No real difference to the concept of handing item into police and after appropriate time is lapsed being entitled to the item if the owner has not claimed it

 

[737]

Things do get stolen by passengers as well.

We were disembarking a 767 I was at Door R1 where about 1/3rd of the way through a passenger said there was a iPhone left on the centre armrest of 5E/F, it was impractical for me to go down and get it at the stage (plus I was leaving my door) but by the time all the passengers had gotten off and I went down to check, it was gone! I searched in every seat pocket, in between everything, but to no avail it had gone.

A real shame really that in 5 minutes someone had taken it.

A good story as well was a certain high profile person to do with soccer (CLQF) had left his wallet on board, upon opening it and realising the multitude of black shiny cards, it was made sure it got back to it's owner

I have had personal experience with leaving a set of keys on board in a seat pocket, I lodged a claim but would assume in such a massive organisation, that things would get lost, so I wasn't expecting much.

 

[rechoboam]

Not sure what would be a better option.

I can just imagine the response at the police station at Tullamarine if the Qantas staff were to haul in 100 kilos of old clothes and used paperbacks every Friday afternoon.

 

[markis10]

Not sure what would be a better option.

I can just imagine the response at the police station at Tullamarine if the Qantas staff were to haul in 100 kilos of old clothes and used paperbacks every Friday afternoon.

They would have to find a police station first, there is a part time office but no station as such.

 

[rechoboam]

They would have to find a police station first, there is a part time office but no station as such.

I have heard it referred to as a station, but I'm sure we can agree that once they start managing Qantas' lost property troubles, the place will need dozens of officers.

 

[Flashback]

I've lost an iPod on the plane once, I rang up the next day and it wasn't too be found. Anyway, 2 days later I called again and it had been found. I went to the airport and picked it up, nice and easy.

One time I also left my wallet on the plane, and given the airport was only 5 minutes from the centre of town (and I had carry on luggage only) I was already "far" from the airport. A quick turn around in the car, went and picked up my wallet (they actually called me, I didn't realise I had left it behind!) and all was good!