My grandmother arrived back at Glasgow today from Basel via LHR, and I’m amazed to see her baggage turned up… The baggage tags were tagged for GLS, not GLA, which I believe is Galveston, Illinois. The person at checkin must have booked it in wrong… :S
I an only assume the Baggage handlers at Heathrow saw sense in it’s BA1484 tagging, also realising there ain’t no fight from LHR to GLS…
Anyone else had any strange luggage problems?
By: Hand87_5 - 26th September 2002 at 08:49
RE: Idiots at checkin
The first time I used UA shuttle from SFO to LAX , (1994 I guess)
I was waiting for my luggage at the carroussel. Nothing happend until I asked to the “lost luggage offcier”. In fact our luggage wasn’t travelling on the same flight!!!! The shuttle system was so meesed up that they couldn’t guarantee that your luggage were in the same plane.
Forunately safety issues fixed that problem.
By: wysiwyg - 26th September 2002 at 07:54
RE: Idiots at checkin
A few years ago I was travelling Basel-Heathrow with CrossAir. A buddy of mine and I were partnered on a Saab 340 course at the CrossAir Training Center and were returning home. We had been staying in Alsace and become very good friends with the locals at a pub which was notorious for serving great pizzas. The owners had very kindly made us several pizzas to take home with us but unfortunately CrossAir lost my friends bag. He was travelling on from Heathrow to Guernsey and when his bag finally appeared 10 days later you can imagine the smell!!! I must say though that apart from this occasion (and even the best have the odd problem) CrossAir really were an outstandingly good airline.
By: keithmac - 25th September 2002 at 21:13
RE: Idiots at checkin
I was travelling from Germany to the Falklands. The first leg was Bruggen-Gatwick. At Gatwick I waited to get my baggage so that I could go to Brize by car to get my RAF flight for my journey to the land that time, but not Argentina, forgot. But No bags! Eventually they were recovered from the “Transfers” area. The Movements guys at Bruggen instead of putting Gatwick labels on the bags had put “MPA” labels on! God knows where they might have landed up!
KeithMac
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September 25, 2002 at 7:39 pm