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I'd not hesitate to pay for it, except I'd need it in my (3y son's) native tongue and on Android.
26 million bags were not lost - most were delayed in connection. Which means you ran to your next flight and made it just in time, but your bag travels slower than you do. In any case, you got it back a few hours or a day later, all contents intact (or did you cheat the insurance? haa? :)
Few (although some) baggage handlers have the time to ruffle through your bag ni the short time they strive to load, unload, and transfer hundreds of bags from one flight to the next twenty.
The fact is that most baggage handlers are honest, while a few are not. Like in any business.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
26 million bags were not lost - most were delayed in connection. Which means you ran to your next flight and made it just in time, but your bag travels slower than you do. In any case, you got it back a few hours or a day later, all contents intact (or did you cheat the insurance? haa? :)
Few (although some) baggage handlers have the time to ruffle through your bag ni the short time they strive to load, unload, and transfer hundreds of bags from one flight to the next twenty.
The fact is that most baggage handlers are honest, while a few are not. Like in any business.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. Lovely. For refuting the OPs ridiculous claim that:
"The fact is that baggage handlers at airports are criminals who make money stealing things. There are exceptions, I am sure a few are honest. Not many though."
I worked in baggage handling for 10 years. I never saw anyone steal anything from any bags. Nobody opened any bags without witnesses (supervisors). I saw delayed bags due to - in order by reason - 1.) misconnection due to delayed flights, 2.) baggage airport system failures 3.) Weather (indirectly causing point 1, 2 and 4) 4.) Human error (rare).
Isn't that thought more tantalizing than being buried on Earth?
Basically, they sampled the "orchestral riff" from Rolling Stones, and in the end got sued and were forced to pay all royalties for this song to the Rolling Stones, even though the lyrics and music was new.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=playe...
It had me mesmerized and mystified for the whole run.
The delayed ('lost') baggage is then moved to an area where it will be retagged for a later connection - this could be a direct flight to the destination, or be routed via up to (normally) two other airports, depending on the availability of flights. Sometimes it'll have to wait for the next day.
Normally, the baggage tag is registered with a "now onboard" message in a worldwide system called Worldtracer, which essentially is a huge Oracle database in Atlanta, with a rudimentary terminal input. If it's not (lack of training? lack of time?), then, no, the airline does not know where the bag is.
And RFID won't fix it.