A few days ago I wrote about my rough Delta Travel day. If you haven't read it, I'd suggest going back and reading it before continuing with this post. As a reminder, I was flying from Atlanta to New York on Delta, and then New York to Sao Paulo on American, with a two hour…
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Glad it worked out Ben, now go do a Rip Van Winkle and sleep for a month. Will look forward to your next post in January.
Ask for extra frequent flyer miles for the trip the bag took without you! That sounds fair to me for the bag's pain and suffering from being separated from his owner. LOL
"...Sao Paulo agents had accidentally tagged my bag’s friend to TUS instead of TUL.. "
You're bag's friend?
Lucky-
1) Buy this bag:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A14YWY0/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
2) Never gate check
3) Profit
My favorite was when I landed in Shanghai last month, only to get stuck in immigration for an abnormally long time. I come out to find the exact same Rimowa bag as mine, but one size smaller, going around the conveyor. I wait, and wait. Ultimately, turns out someone had mistaken my bag for theirs and driven it home - three hours from Shanghai.
I eventually got it back the next day, but only because the person who took it called me and we coordinated directly. AA was not help whatsoever.
@ Craig - is there something special about that bag? And profit? Am I missing something?