[Idyllchat] Sending luggage ahead

[Joan Herriges]

Laura:  Perhaps someone more experienced than I can comment on this. I think
you may be describing two different situations.

First situation: Traveling passengers and bags must match.  Second
situation:  Bags that have been misdirected must find their way to their
owners.  This is the responsibility of the airlines, and there is no
passenger.  They are bar coded differently

Does that make sense?  Regretfully, it is not unusual for baggage to play
catch-up these days.  We hold our breath at the final destination watching
the baggage carousel these days.

I just read a travel article regarding your initial question.  There are 
many ways
to send bags ahead.  These services are provided by a number of companies
(DHL, etc.)   This is not an inexpensive solution.

Forgive me if I am not interpreting your message correctly.   Sounds like
you are an experienced traveler.  As always, pack light, take emergency
items with you, including a practical change of clothing in case your bags
take a few days.  Cheers.  Joan.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Locklin" <lauralocklin at yahoo.com>
To: <idyllchat at lists.untours.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:41 PM
Subject: [Idyllchat] Sending luggage ahead


> Until last month I would have believed that luggage
> wasn't allowed on a plane without an accompanying
> passenger. In 2002 my granddaughter and I were
> detained for an hour on the tarmac along with all the
> other passengers on a plane going from Paris to
> Newark, NJ. The reason? There was luggage aboard that
> did not belong to a passenger on the plane.
>
> However, this August, the same granddaughter and I
> went to Tennessee and our suitcases went to Paris
> without us. Delta's personnel seemed to find that
> rather amusing as they traced them, first saying the
> suitcases were in Cincinnati, the next day, same
> story, third day hers was in Cincinnati, mine in
> Paris, fourth day both were in Paris. I was actually
> told the chances of getting them back were pretty low
> but 8 days later mine safely arrived and hers did the
> next day. On the return trip they went from Paris to
> Atlanta to Nashville to Newark.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> 
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