For the 5th time, my suitcase is missing after flying to or from Europe, this time with American Airlines. They delivered my suitcase 4 hours late at home so this is a minor inconvenience for someone used to lose my baggages all the time... This gave me the idea of making this summary table of my baggage losses history with transatlantic flights.
This includes the flights I have taken and the flights taken by my family visiting
me from France.
| Date |
Company |
Trip |
Connecting |
Baggages |
| July 1998 | Tower |
Paris - New York | | |
| Sept 1998 | Tower |
New York - Paris | | |
| Feb 2000 | Northwest |
Nantes - Washington | Amsterdam | |
| June 2000 | Air France |
Washington - Paris | London | delayed 2 days |
| June 2000 | Air France |
Paris - Washington | | |
| Sept 2000 | Air France |
Paris - Washington | | delayed 3 days |
| Sept 2000 | Air France |
Washington - Paris | | |
| Jan 2001 | Sabena |
Washington - Nantes | Brussels | |
| Jan 2001 | Sabena |
Nantes - Washington | Brussels | |
| Sept 2001 | Sabena |
Nantes - Washington | Brussels | |
| Sept 2001 | Sabena |
Washington - Nantes | Brussels | |
| Dec 2001 | Air France |
Washington - Paris | | Lost |
| Jan 2002 | Air France |
Paris - Washington | | delayed 1 day |
| Dec 2002 | Northwest |
Washington - Paris | Detroit | |
| Jan 2003 | Northwest |
Paris - Washington | Detroit | |
| Dec 2003 | American |
Los Angeles - Paris | Dallas | |
| Jan 2004 | American |
Paris - Los Angeles | Dallas | delayed 4 hours |
First, congratulations to Northwest and Sabena, I had no
problems with them even with connecting flights. It is really too bad Sabena is dead,
used to be my personnal favorite.
Second, I am probably cursed with baggages, 5 missing baggages at arrival out of 17 possible
ones is a lot.
And last, SHAME on AIR FRANCE:
- I never flew with Air France w/o having a baggage problem
- The only company that has ever LOST one of my baggages, not delayed like the other ones,
and getting rehimbursed was a pain in the a**.
- The only company that has lost or delayed my baggage on a direct flight
- The only company that has lost or delayed my baggage twice on the same trip
Last time I flew with them, on January 2002, it was so bad that I decided it was
the last time I would ever fly with them for a very long time!
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