Lost Luggage Tips
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Lost Luggage Tips
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to avoid lost luggage, it has now happend to me twice. Once Air France and the second time KLM. Though I eventualy got paid out by my travel insurance it was a lot of hassle.<BR>
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Well, the obvious one is to have carry-on luggage only. I travel a great deal, so I've learned how to pack. I could be very comfortable with a carry-on for a trip up to about 10 days. If there are 2 of you traveling together, you could almost have 3 carry-ons if you don't carry a lot of electronics or presents.<BR>If you can't do without a check-in luggage, make sure it has your name and address in many different places. Have a good strong permanent leather name tag attached, plus take 1 or even 2 airline tags, filled out and put them on the outside of the luggage. Make a list of the luggage content and put a xeroxed copy inside the luggage with another sheet of paper with your name address and phone # and even the flight # you will be on. <BR>The xerox is to "possibly" stop an airline employee from stealing from your suitcase. I do say "possibly", but regardless it can't hurt.<BR>Make sure you don't pack any valuables. That includes jewelry, electronics or anything that could be sold to your local pawn shop. <BR>This should help about 90% of the time, but as the airlines move millions of pieces of luggage daily, there will always be a possibility of lost luggage.<BR>Good Luck!



