Senior Travel Dilemma: When Checked Bags Fly Off in Another Direction |
Springtime brings even more of a rush of heavy air travel. With such pressure on airlines to get millions of people to the right destinations, sometimes their baggage flies off in different directions. Statistics today show that one out of every 20 checked bags fails to arrive at the designated airport at the right time. Most are merely misdirected, and eventually get home to their owners. But while they’re missing, they cause much distress.
If it happens to you, the scenario is, at the least, upsetting. You wait and wait as the baggage carousel goes slowly ‘round and ‘round. Then, after everyone else has left, and you’ve wasted an hour or more of worry, you realize your bags are missing. First, grab an airline employee and make sure your bags may still be nearby, but were mistakenly put on another carousel or are still sitting somewhere in the back areas. |