March 7th - Your baggage questions answered
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Baggage, a sometimes fraught and confusing system many of us encounter when things go awry. In today's episode, I sit down and go through the post bag, answering your questions on baggage - how it works when things go wrong, who's responsible and how best to go about being reunited with your luggage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder and today I am with my colleague Charlotte Hindle who has been fielding lots of travellers questions on the very thorny subject of lost luggage. So Charlotte, what are people asking? |
| 0:20.1 | Well, there are a lot of people who seem to have |
| 0:23.0 | lost luggage and they don't know what to do. They don't know whose responsibility it is. And so |
| 0:28.3 | I thought it might be just a really good idea of just looking at luggage, you know, sort of souped |
| 0:33.2 | nuts and seeing if we can, if you can help people. So I just wonder, can we just start with packing? |
| 0:40.3 | What should go in Checkton luggage and actually what should go as sort of, you know, cabin |
| 0:47.3 | luggage that you take with you in the airplane? |
| 0:49.3 | Okay, well, the ideal luggage to check in is none at all. |
| 0:52.3 | You have to assume that anything you do check in you will never see again. |
| 0:58.0 | And overwhelming odds are that you will, but as long as you have that in mind, then you will not pack anything in it that you cannot afford to lose. |
| 1:08.0 | The other great way to avoid losing luggage, it will reduce very significantly the risks, |
| 1:13.6 | is by not transferring just doing a point-to-point flight because it tends to be at the big |
| 1:20.6 | hub airports where things go missing. |
| 1:23.6 | So in terms of things that you might put in your cabin luggage, obviously, you know, medication, anything of value. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, and medication is a tricky one because sometimes that can conflict with the 100 miller rule, |
| 1:36.3 | in which case you will need, well, to look at various options, including decanting things into 100 millilitres or whatever or indeed getting a letter |
| 1:45.8 | explaining that you've got to carry it with you. Okay. And then luggage, sometimes luggage |
| 1:50.4 | all looks the same, but then also sometimes you get these brightly coloured cases or you get covers |
| 1:57.7 | for cases. In your opinion, is it good to have some identifiable luggage that you are going to check in? |
| 2:05.4 | Sure, yes. And a very simple thing is just a swathe of brightly coloured cloth that you attach to the handle. |
| 2:12.1 | And that will simply signify to somebody who might absentmindedly be picking up a case |
| 2:19.3 | because they've got an almost identical case |
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