Lost your luggage? What you do, what is covered…
The Baltimore Sun has a splendid article, If you check bags, read the airlines’ fine print, which covers what to do if you lose your luggage, what’s covered, stuff like that.
What it comes down to:
- If something happens to your luggage, you have 24 to 48 hours to make your claim.
- If something from your luggage gets stolen, it’s hard to prove what you say was in your luggage was actually in your luggage. That’s not a good place to be.
- Your luggage, when checked, gets handled by a lot of people working for a lot of different corporations. Whether or not you were told this doesn’t matter.
- Each airline has a Contract of Carriage which deals with luggage, your rights, and what happens when things go wrong. It’s useful reading.
From the article:
… anything you value, hold dear or vitally need (such as medical supplies) should not, I repeat, not be packed in your checked luggage. And, if you think AirTran is the only one with such arcane and severe rules, guess again. All the carriers have similar rules.
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