Lost Luggage
Since I plan to be on an airplane in about a week, I found this March 28, 2006 article particularly disturbing:
"A report by SITA Inc., an air transportation telecommunications and technology company, found the airline industry lost an estimated 30 million bags worldwide last year. Two hundred thousand of those were never found. U.S. Airlines alone lost 10,000 bags a day in 2005.
So, what happens to all that lost luggage? A lot of it ends up at Scottsboro, Alabama, at the Unclaimed Baggage Center, where complete strangers can buy your stuff, everything from lost artwork to lost underwear."
I don't know about you, but that really pisses me off!
How can the airlines be so totally incompetent, and get away with it, 10,000 times a day, then sell the evidence to a private retailer?!!
I'm going to write a letter to the Attorney General's office and my two Senators and ask why they aren't prosecuting or, at least investigating, the airlines. I'll let you know what, if any, response I get. Most likely, I'll only manage to get my name on a threat profile. Sheesh.
posted by jyuma @ 7:37 AM
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i saw the article and was also aghast. i'm sure the airlines would say they try every possible avenue to track down the owners and then have no choice but to get rid of the luggage and these nice people are willing to take all that stuff off their hands.
maybe true, maybe not, but the whole idea gives me the creeps. i just don't trust any organization whose bottom line is monitored by someone with an mba background rather than someone with integrity. the two concepts are simply not compatible.
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