Lost luggage: What happens to your baggage after check-in 

What would help is if each airport had a number you could call to ask if your bags are there at their baggage office. It’s literally all it takes. People can then call the airports they arrived or left from to confirm. It’s all it takes

That luggage graveyard gave me the creeps.

Its so annoying that our stuff just goes to be sold. Like it’s yours but because of someone’s incompetence the airlines makes money from it

After AIR CANADA lost our luggage we got a surprising phone call from a Michael who works for an American airline & works in another terminal at LAX. He had noticed our luggage had been sitting on the floor next to a conveyor belt for more than 4 weeks while looking for one of their customer's bags. So he went over & looked at the tags on the 4 pieces of the luggage & called us. He asked, "Would you possibly be missing your luggage?" My wife who answered the call said, "Yes!" We flew out of LA 4 weeks ago. Michael took it upon himself to meander over the AIR CANADA counter after the phone call & tell AIR CANADA, "Y'all know you got 4 or your client's bags sitting next to the conveyor belt and they have sitting there for a few weeks now." They were promptly put on the next AIR CANADA flight to Toronto & we received them 6 weeks after our flight in 3 separate deliveries. So we now know what happened to our luggage, the employee who checked us in loaded our bags unto a dolly, took them over to the conveyor belt, unloaded the dolly unto the floor next to the conveyor belt, but failed in the last few inches to actually put them unto the conveyor which would have whisked our bags out to airside to be loaded unto the plane that brought us home with out our luggage. Thank you Michael in LAX.

I’m convinced that the rings around the planet Saturn is completely made up of lost luggage.

ID tags in the outside and inside of our luggage is a really good idea! Will be doing that for now on 👍🏼

Air tags are useful when you lose your luggage. There was a lady who also lost her luggage when my family lost ours on the same flight, she said "I already now know where mine is im gonna let this family deal with it since they have kids" the worker said "how do you know where it is?" The lady said "I have air tags in my luggage." From what I know, air tags in your luggage can help the airline find your luggage faster.

So... this ignored what they do when they find your luggage. First of all, they almost always know exactly where it is, but they don't get to scan through another airports baggage computers so they can't tell you. If you are actually running through the airport to make your connection, you're luggage WILL be "lost". It's still on the plane you just ran off of. The airline will put it on the next flight to the airport you just connected to. The more connections you make, the longer it will take your bag to catch up. When your bag arrives at your destination, it scans in just like it would have if you were both on the same plane. It's secured and delivered to your home or hotel. If you're luggage is several airports back, or more genuinely lost, the airline will usually give you a stipend (mine was $200) to buy clothes and toiletries to hold you over until you are reunited with your luggage. Obviously, since people don't pack all of their laundry or full size toiletries, if you're going home when your luggage is lost, you probably won't get paid unless they cannot find your luggage at all, and then it will likely be more money. Long story short: your bag will turn up. But it's still a good idea to leave your favorite or most valuable things at home.

Here is the thing... luggage isn’t supposed to travel without a passenger. The conveyor is not that advanced in the majority of airports.

They missed the biggest truth of lost luggage. NEVER check your bag at the CURB side check in. Even if they tell you too. Go inside and check it at the counter. Most lost luggage is from checking it outside at the curb. That is actually a fact of why luggage goes missing. Then from connecting flights.

Whenever I travel with someone I trust I'll swap 2 changes of clothing in a plastic bag with a friend's bag & when we're at the destination we swap back, so if there is a problem with one suitcase, you or your friend aren't stuck in a single pair of clothing.

Fortunately with all the traveling that I have done in my life time (so far), I never had any issues with lost or misplaced luggage. Knock on wood!

If you're that worried about your luggage being lost. Put a hidden tracker inside your luggage one of those expensive ones that actually work and give live feedback

3:15 "A lot can cause confusing for bags behind it", I like to image all the bags are sentient and they are all cursing and yelling with confusion.

if this happens in Canada the airline is legally required to reimburse you for any out of pocket expenses directly related to the lost luggage

The bag wasn't lost, it arrived two days after me at my destination. Fortunately I was staying with my parents. The Personnel brought it to my parents house. For this reason I travel carry-on only for 99% of my trips.

I once lost a bag going back to college. The keys to my dorm were in it so I was worried about getting it back. The airlines were pretty good about helping me get it back. They didn't have any information about where it was when I got to the desk but they did eventually find that it never got on my connection (even though the layover was over 6 hours long -_-). My sister who lives nearby, thank God, was nice enough to lend me some clothes and take me to Target for some unmentionables. I did eventually get the bag back the next evening and was back at school the week after.

Lost my carry on bag.....it's been over a week now with no update other than to say they still haven't found it. I've contacted the airport I lost it at, my destination airport and the airline. Luckily I lost it in my home country and I've got all my contact information including my address inside the bag. It's very upsetting though, I feel like I'm never getting it back because there are valuables inside I suspect will be stolen.

0:00 We all been there. Me when I was never on a plane or in an airport: 👁👄👁

Have you ever had the unfortunate experience of losing your luggage?

Who is watching this bcs they’ve just arrived home without they’re 23 kg baggage 😂😂?? I’ve changed 3 planes from Mexico to Romania and I’ve came back without my things ...it is absolutely wonderful

Useful information!

The planes should not leave if the baggages are not fully loaded. They know how many baggages they can expected when people checking in.

Ive never been on a plane, but I always thought the idea of them just losing my stuff was insane.

I lost my baggage .. My flight was on 2 may with Delta from MCO-LAX and I missed my connecting flight LAX-ICN, and ICN-CGK. I supposed to arrive at CGK on 4 May. And I booked other flight LAX-SIN and SIN-CGK arrived on 5 May. And I dont know where are my checked baggage right now I checked my baggage from MCO to final destination in CGK

Very informative 👍

I wish I would walk into that store and see some of my lost items in there. Lol 😑

Never happened in my country while it only happened here

If you buy a ticket with a scheduled 2 hour layover connection time and you check in luggage your luggage will pretty much always arrive as you do. Book a flight with 45 minute or less connection time and the odds of you arriving but not your stuff on the same flight increases greatly. 😊😊

Seems like the connection flights on tight schedule are a nice loophole for terrorists to leverage: since Panam Flight n. 103 it is prohibited to check in luggage without the owner getting on plane. But these connected flights might be a suitable flaw to abuse.

wow nice toy story 2 reference

This is sad and ashamed My husband went from Dallas to Paris on American Air line and Paris to Colombo in Sri Lankan He lost one luggage and got it after 2 days and stuff was missing

this is why whenever i go on flights, I would usually bring the luggage with me on the airplane so that it's easier to avoid lost luggage.

Lol seriously I’m always hoping it’s under the weight limit

Its the worst feeling

Cool

Imma travel to Alabama now to get the graveyard gifts😜

My airport lost mine 2 days ago now, I’m literally gonna be so upset if I don’t get it back :/

Arrive EARLY for your flight if checking baggage...book flights with 2 hour connection time at least. Make sure you have name tags that can be READ on the luggage. Do not stuff so much stuff into the lughage that you can barely close it and if your luggage was made in 1965 buy some new stuff!😊

travel light ? are you kidding me ? even when you just bring a carry on bag . They still sometimes force you to put the bag under the plane because they allowing people to pay extra to bring TWO carry on bags! taking the spot of another person, which ends up making their bag get lost!

Can we use GPS tracker device inside our checked in baggages?

Oh no wonder why my luggage always gets f**ed up.

pegasus just didn't delivered my luggage yesterday, still don't have it

Are passengers allowed to put like a gps tracker inside their luggage?

Where's the Traffic Lights?

How can I get my luggage lost in Virgin atlantic airline more than 1 month now

I would love a game about this, it would be like the insanity of Factorio

My biggest fear

0:20 really now... Interesting.

What about lost luggage at train stations?!

Apparently Sam Brinton is the reason.😅🤣

Ba dumped theirs in landfill

5:50 Yeah a Bitcoin

Evey time I’ve ever flown the airline always loses my luggage

Singapore airlines is a disappointment

My luggage problems were DAMAGE to bags- twice in a row by Sunwing. i cannot speak for AirCanada, because i refuse wherever possible to hand over money to companies which have gender/racial affirmative action quotas. i will be reducing where possible my business to Porter for this later reason ,until Porter rescinds that hiring/promotion policy. so i now fly mostly West Jet

hahahhaahahahaha

I lost my baggage todaym. my.mistake was thinking europeon are most honest than we southamericans, but I am afraid that ended with the pandemic

I lost mine today.. they told me they will find it and deliver it tommorow.. I'm hoping for that to happen