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Yet again

Nisha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:26:13 +0000

A story – The guy in question travels a lot. His other name is ‘a frequent flyer’. The day before yesterday he was to take last flight of Spicejet airlines on Bengaluru – Pune sector.
Both these places have only one airport catering to both domestic & international flights. The scanning of baggage takes place behind the scene and not in front of the passenger.

The guy always has a laptop and one more baggage (this time an overnighter) which invariably gets checked in because of one shaving kit it carries within. As always, he had put a Samsonite no. lock on the overnighter before handing it over to staff at Bengaluru airport.

Flight concluded, he picked up his luggage from the conveyor belt and went home. All routine work.

Once home, he bent down to open the overnighter and this is what he saw. The Samsonite lock alongwith the zip tab was missing !

I am not telling you about the expensive items that were missing from it including his DSLR camera, which, out of sheer laziness of carrying, he had kept in.
It was 1:30 at night, he immediately went back to airport and reported. Obviously they refused to accept that it happened during the period the baggage was in their custody. However, since the baggage tag was intact, they could not deny it was with them.

Moral of the story ???? What do you say ?

P.S.- This is the second time this blog has reported misdeeds of an airlines/airport. Here is the first post.

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