Luggage Stories

Water-Logged Luggage

February 17, 2008

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This tale of frustration occurred back in the spring of 2005. I had flown from DC to Syracuse to visit family for Easter break, and my return flight had a layover in Philadelphia (where I’m originally from). I was frustrated, as Syracuse-DC is already a short flight, and Philadelphia-DC is literally less than 25 minutes […]

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Travel Trepidation

January 17, 2008

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I generally do my best to avoid having to “Fly the Unfriendly Skies”. Two recent Flights from Hell on United only confirmed that things don’t get much worse. Even if they were giving it away, I would steer clear in the future… The night before my UA flight from San Francisco to San Diego, I […]

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Baggage Bungle

November 16, 2007

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When my wife and I flew to Italy, the first two legs were on American Airlines. The first flight was supposed to be a non-stop from San Francisco to JFK. It circled Ohio for a while and then had to land at Newark to refuel for the 15 minute flight to JFK. We were told […]

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Holy Bovine!

November 16, 2007

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Air India: Holy Cow! (Pun intended.) I just flew them from Newark to Paris. 1. On arrival, my luggage was delayed by TWO HOURS. 2. On departure, the flight from Paris was delayed by FIVE HOURS, leaving me to miss my connection to SFO. 3. At Newark, I had to spend TWO HOURS waiting on […]

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Customer Disservice

November 16, 2007

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On July 10, 2007, my one year old daughter and I were to leave from NYC on US Airways. That flight was supposed to leave at 1.23 pm; boarding was supposed to begin around 12.45 pm. At around 1.30 the gate agent informed us that the aircraft (it was a prop plane) was too hot […]

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Lets start off 4 hours delayed at take-off…….. My sister and I were on a flight from Puerto Rico to NYC. We usually pack very lightly so as to avoid the long baggage lines. Upon boarding the plane, it became very obvious that most people had decided to just push all their oversized baggage into […]

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