More flight woes
Of the 16,000 emails we have received since last week鈥檚 crisis at Britain鈥檚 airports over the terror plot, the majority now are full of tales of lost or stolen luggage and miserable accounts of how people have coped without their valuables and precious possessions after a flight.
The two people featured on last night鈥檚 Six O鈥機lock News and various radio programmes - - both came from stories sent into the website.
There is a great deal of confusion out there and again the Have Your Say message boards are a form of therapy for thousands of people who cannot get through to the airlines directly to let off some steam. 鈥淎ll my 'we're all in this together' sympathy for the airlines and BAA in dealing with this emergency is quickly disintegrating,鈥 wrote Laura from the Isle of Islay.
Anyone who has ever travelled on a long flight with young children will sympathise with this one from John in Newcastle: 鈥淲e have probably 'lost' one of our most treasured possessions - my daughter鈥檚 teddy bear 'Gary' on a connecting flight from Heathrow to Newcastle after flying in from San Francisco on Friday the 14th. Put him in my wife's vanity case. Of course out of our six pieces of luggage the vanity case is the one missing.鈥
Dan, from Shrewsbury has managed to see a funny side: 鈥淚 took a short flight to Europe over the weekend and of course had to check everything into the hold. I have no problem with that except that the one bag on the flight that went missing was mine with my laptop, car keys, iPod, camera etc in it. I hope someone is putting them to good use somewhere.鈥
Interesting thought - and maybe another facet of our public service remit - the message board has become the electronic version of a good listener! Feel free to to have a good moan.
Comments
Most people don't want to think their blog is a 'moan'. Perhaps that explains why there are so many posts here !!
I don't which is a greater threat: a potential terrorist finding his way on to an airplane or some of the people who work at airports and handle luggage.
I find it strange, in the case of one reader, that all all the luggage it should be his one piece that contains all the valuables, including a laptop computer. Clearly, now that luggage cannot be locked anymore, some airport luggage handlers must be making a fortune in stolen items right now.
Locking your suitcase wasn't a problem in the past, so why should it matter now whether it's locked or not? I can only say that I will not be flying anymore until we're allowed to lock our suitcases again. They can x-ray, scan and even MRI my suitcase, I don't care, but I won't put my valuables in there when I cannot even lock it.
Werner Patels wrote: I find it strange, in the case of one reader, that all all the luggage it should be his one piece that contains all the valuables, including a laptop computer. Clearly, now that luggage cannot be locked anymore, some airport luggage handlers must be making a fortune in stolen items right now.
Not necessaraily much to do with a bag being unlocked when the whole, goodie-laden bag disappeared. A security x-ray would have revealed that even if it were locked.
I would really like ot know why RFID tags are not in use on all hold luggage on all major routes, to enable a close tally to be kept on every bag. Attached at check-in, removed when collected by the passenger the other end, and a constant watch kept for "stray" tags. This is where we need a close watch kept on movement, no with our passports, where RFID is currently proposed.
Vicky,
1. If you are going to encourage participation the least you could do is make the initiators of the discussion (大象传媒 staff) interact occasionally.
2. It's understandable comments need to be moderated by they take way way way to long to appear on your site.
Please improve this interactivity Miss 大象传媒 Interactivity.