Special Installment: Ash Wednesday
We don't like it when an airline loses our bags, but what does the airline do when passengers don't pick up their bags? Perhaps leaving our baggage is a good thing.
It's every traveler's nightmare: lost luggage. Many of us have been there. We endure a cramped flight, a painfully slow process of deplaning and shuffling down the aisle of the aircraft and snake our way through concourses and down escalators to the luggage area only to discover that ours -- for whatever reason -- is nowhere to be found on the suitcase carousel. "Great," we think. "Just my luck." And so begins the painful process of trying to track down and reclaim one's personal baggage.
The airline industry is quick to tell us that the plight of lost luggage is, in the grand scheme of things, quite rare. Ninety-nine and one-half percent of checked bags are successfully picked up by their owners, and of the ½ of 1% that go missing 95% of those stray bags make it home within 5 days. Not bad considering the millions upon millions of bags carried across the country and around the world every day.
There is however the rare exception. The bag that, despite the exhaustive efforts of...
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