“My bag made it back; my husband’s did not.”
They filled out a lost bag report and checked their AirTag tracker, which showed that the bag was still in Montreal, where it sat for four weeks.
“We were a little frustrated but weren’t upset,” she said.
As they saw their bag being transported from Montreal to Etobicoke, they said they were “pumped,” assuming their bag was headed for a storage facility.
However, the AirTag showed that the bag was in a residential community. […]
After several phone calls with Air Canada, the couple finally decided to head to the storage facility and try to find their bag.
“[My husband] started peering through some doors with his flashlight in the public storage facility until he found the one that was piled floor to ceiling high with luggage,” she said.
That’s when they got the police involved and were shocked to learn what they found.
“Our luggage was donated to a charity on behalf of Air Canada because they deemed it lost even though we were tracking our luggage last for the last four months,” Rees said. “It was never actually truly lost because we know where it was the entire time.”
Police told her they found over 500 pieces of luggage in the facility, with some bags containing iPhones, laptops, iPads, and more AirTags.
What kind of charity needs your iPhone?
In all fairness, if I was employed in an industry entirely controlled by the the federal gov’t, I’d want to give up too, just toss everything in “tomorrow’s to do list” into the hopper and have someone give it away.
Probs do this monthly in order to keep the “to do” list manageable.
Who else is to blame but the people who control all aspects of Air Canada’s being?
This is part of the reason why the post-modern West sucks.
Even if the job is crappy and the pay is equally poor, you should still have some kind of work ethic. You should do the job to the best of your ability.
This isn’t all on Air Canada or the federal government. It is part of a larger disintegration of Western values.
Lost luggage in point …
You ever see who works at airports? There is nothing “western” about them.
Perhaps, and there is another failing: not acclimating people to their new homes.
Does Omar Alghabra, or a member of his family, run that “charity”?
Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold.
No one has yet proven me wrong.
What kind of charity needs your iPhone?
“Need” has got nuthin’ to do with it.
“Deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it”
I travelled a lot during my life, most of it business travel. Anytime a bag did not make it to my destination with me, it was delivered the same day or the next day to the hotel or my home, which ever direction I was going. Hundreds of flights and never a real problem. Were people smarter then?
Yes. Employees had a different ethic. Different ethnics have different ethics. It also states the current level of ‘Airport Security’. Reading between the lines, that is.
We came back from Asia a few years ago on Cathay Pacific and had a tight turnaround in Hong Kong because our originating flight was late. A representative met us at the jetway and hustled us through the airport to make our connecting flight to Toronto, but my wife’s bag didn’t make it. When it arrived on the subsequent flight the following day, the airline had it immediately delivered to us in rural Muskoka. They also had Hagen-Daz ice cream on the flight for dessert!
We currently live in Mexico and we advise anyone coming to visit to avoid Air Canada if at all possible. Aero Mexico is far superior.
A friend had his own company, delivering lost luggage across certain areas of the province- during the three year lock down there was little use of his services so he shut the business down. I wonder how many private contractors went out of business that use to deliver lost airline luggage? How can it be legal for them to stuff your property in a warehouse without any attempt to return it? Isn’t that theft? I hope they face a class action lawsuit.
On our last trip we were waiting for our luggage (of course)…and we had that experience nobody wants to have in an airport: my wife heard her name called. Great. Way, way out of the way is the little booth, it is.
Apparently, Air Canada could load 3 of our 4 bags…but somehow missed the fourth. Didn’t make the trip to Vancouver (on our way to Australia). How does that happen do you ask?
Well, after we landed she checked up…they FOUND IT! And would ship it when it landed…on the next flight. Ok, window is narrowing (we were off the next day).
Ah…concierge phones up…its HERE!
And…broken. Severely. Broken. “Tossed 20 feet” broken. Now we see why it didn’t arrive, they had to find the duct tape….
The rest was so funny we actually started laughing: they’d certainly pay for a replacement, just please send the receipt…
Because everyone travels with the receipt for their luggage. Which we didn’t have…as it was a gift.
Still…better than ending up in a “charity” warehouse.
Judging what I know about baggage handlers (used to live with one)…and who I see smirking as they lollygag through the crowd of people waiting to get their luggage…I don’t know how they could possibly be bondable.
Quoting Sgt.Barnes: “There’s the way it oughta be…and there’s the way it is”
At first glance your brain has a hard time processing what you’re seeing.
https://twitter.com/the_transit_guy/status/1616658674679676929
You are limited to $2300 in compensation for when Air Canada loses your bag, and you have to be pretty special to pack your ipad/laptop/iphone in your checked luggage (not the least of which is that doing so is banned if it has a Li-Ion battery)
the charity is probably “Baggage Handler Larry’s Five Finger Discount”
Packing your laptop in checked baggage is asking for it to be stolen.
A Toronto resident flying Air canaduh, could I be less interested. They continually vote for this-deal with it.
Like Joe, I believe Omar Alghabra has probably arranged for Hamas to receive the stolen luggage.
You know the Tories sold Air Canada and it’s a private company? Don’t you?
And Petro-Can was sold & I don’t support them, either.
I thought there was an outfit that compiled all the “unclaimed” luggage for all the airlines and auctioned it off?
But that was decades ago … probably some beancounter found a more lucrative way of disposing of it. The stuff the TSA and luggage handlers don’t steal, that is.
Donating it to charity was probably the more lucrative way. After all, at an auction you only get the money people pay for it, and that’s probably going to be lower than the retail value of whatever you’re trying to sell. If the tax system in Canada works anything like here in America, when you donate it you can inflate the price of the donated items and write it off as a tax deduction.
Anything really valuable should be kept on your person.
A laptop, for example.
Only travel with carry-on. … then, of course, the airline starts charging for carry-on (e.g. Flair). For you, extra cost and you do all the work, though at least you have your bag when you arrive. For the airline, extra passenger revenue and no work, plus all that newly empty space in the hold for paying cargo. For the climate-demented, anti-fossil fuel, anti-travel government it helps strangle the air industry and the airline gets the blame.
And just take a wild Wild guess as to just WHO these 500+ bags would donated too…hmmm..??
Those that cross ROXHAM RD…I’m betting..near 100%.
Nice little Telford/ Butts concocted SCAM.
Kudos to the cpl that tracked tgeir baggage.
Well if its any Consolation, Just Wet is also an unmitigated disaster. When I fly home after 7 days up in the SANDS, I’ve learned NOT to check my baggage into Calgary…its alwzys an hour+ to retrieve. On the plane it goes (small duffle type bag plus my backpack), ..damned if Im waiting an hour sitting around at 11PM to pick it up.
Omar Alghabra is barely qualified to be Minister of Garden Gnomes.
Even garden Gnomes think he is a sawed off ,chicken fcuking, ugly mofo
Convinced.. That they want to make travel as awful as possible so we can spend more time at home eating bugs..
Air Canada’s Motto
“We’re not happy, till you’re not happy.”