United Airlines Baggage Handlers

[PegLeg45]

Saw this on TV a few years ago.....


Two million bags are checked in at airports each day and 99.5% of them reach their destination on the same flight as their owner.

That leaves .5% of the luggage that are "mishandled". The definition of mishandled is that they do not arrive with the passenger, arrive damaged or arrive with missing items.

Doing the math: .5% of two million equals 10,000 bags a day.

The Department of Transportation claims that 80% of the mishandled bags are reunited with their owner within 24 hours and 99% are returned within 5 days. Only 1% are lost forever.

But, 1% still equals about 100 bags per day and 36,500 a year.

Where did they go?

ALABAMA.

Alabama?

Scottsboro, Alabama is the lost luggage capital of the world. It is the home of the Unclaimed Baggage Center where you can buy a lost $1000 Versace dress for $55, a tube of slightly used Japanese toothpaste for 50 cents, a $15,000 sapphire and diamond bracelet for $7500, gold wedding bands for half their value, and a black lace teddy for $3.

http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/LOSTLUGGAGE.html

[Pathfinder]

United was one of my clients once upon a time, had buying managers in the Corp. HQ in Elk Grove Village NW of Chicago. It got to the point that I really really really detested paying their fares cuz I knew of all of the dead weight employees they had to carry. The others may be similar, but this one is one I used to know well.

And that's not counting the times (plural) they tried to check in a DC-10 with 1 - count 'em 1 - gate agent.  Or the hostile gate agents and flight attendants. or rarely being on time, or . . .

However, I will say this - they never did loose any of my bags - mostly because I almost never checked!

[tombogan03884]

Saw this on TV a few years ago.....


Two million bags are checked in at airports each day and 99.5% of them reach their destination on the same flight as their owner.

That leaves .5% of the luggage that are "mishandled". The definition of mishandled is that they do not arrive with the passenger, arrive damaged or arrive with missing items.

Doing the math: .5% of two million equals 10,000 bags a day.

The Department of Transportation claims that 80% of the mishandled bags are reunited with their owner within 24 hours and 99% are returned within 5 days. Only 1% are lost forever.

But, 1% still equals about 100 bags per day and 36,500 a year.

Where did they go?

ALABAMA.

Alabama?

Scottsboro, Alabama is the lost luggage capital of the world. It is the home of the Unclaimed Baggage Center where you can buy a lost $1000 Versace dress for $55, a tube of slightly used Japanese toothpaste for 50 cents, a $15,000 sapphire and diamond bracelet for $7500, gold wedding bands for half their value, and a black lace teddy for $3.

http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/LOSTLUGGAGE.html

In manufacturing a failure rate of more than 0.02 is  unacceptable, some places I've worked it was grounds for being fired

[m25operator]

Good for this guy, and I will believe because he had witnesses, but something I learned from a professional musician, who learned the hard way, packed his gold top Les Paul, in the hardcase fully strung and tuned. The flight was well over 30,000', when he arrived the atmospheric pressure affected the wood and with the strings tight, snapped the neck. Always destring or really relax the strings when shipping by air.

I would be really sick if that happened to my Taylor, K22C.

[Timothy]

I would be really sick if that happened to my Taylor, K22C.

I would be too Benny. 

 My Martin will never be more than a few thousand feet above see level...

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