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If they didn't exist, the headline would be "The company that dumps your lost airplane luggage into a landfill."
sounds good to me. Then nobody's making money off of stolen goods except the landfill.
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Please read the article...
I did. Are you saying 25m bags have absolutely no information on them? Absolutely zero?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/what-happens-to-unclaimed-lug...
Air Canada and Westjet both open the bags to look for identifying information so they can contact the owner. Then they donate the bags to charity or dispose of them if they can't locate the owner.
I think the moral of the story is to make sure your bag is well tagged. We have been putting an airtag in my bag for the last few flights, and it works really well. It's a pity there is no Android equivalent, as I have no way of locating my tags on my phone. (I just use an ipad).
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I did. Are you saying 25m bags have absolutely no information on them? Absolutely zero?
Did you read the sentence right after that one? "Around 25m of them (5.7 per 1k bags checked) end up lost or misdirected. The 0.03% of bags that are still not reunited with their owners after 90 days are sold by the airline." 0.03% of 25m, and it's only after 90 days.
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I did. Are you saying 25m bags have absolutely no information on them? Absolutely zero?
Did you read the sentence right after that one? "Around 25m of them (5.7 per 1k bags checked) end up lost or misdirected. The 0.03% of bags that are still not reunited with their owners after 90 days are sold by the airline." 0.03% of 25m, and it's only after 90 days.
When they say the founder was buying 3k a month, either the RF ids are great at reducing the losses worldwide, or something is wrong with those numbers.
I would imagine the really good stuff is sorted through and sold via different methods. What makes it to the store is left over crap?
When it was founded 50 Yeats ago _maybe_ it made sense because technology was not that advanced. Now I'd say it's a company selling stolen goods. Airlines know who is the owner of that luggage. They have the sticker with flight, booking number, they have the contact details of the owner, and most owners put a tag with their contact info on the luggage. They were hired to provide the sole service of transporting the l…
> Now I'd say it's a company selling stolen goods. "Imagine this: An airline loses your checked bag. After an extensive search, customer support comes up empty-handed. They compensate you and life goes on." It seems bizarre to call this stolen goods when the airline has tried to resolve this for 90 days AND compensated you for your loss
Some bags had valuable artifacts, a camera used by NASA, etc. I’m sure the airlines didn’t compensate for this sort of items.
Regardless, the company selling this is not at fault for selling “stolen” items. They believe the airline has done its due diligence in trying to find the owner and are now reducing waste by giving the items a 2nd home.
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I did. Are you saying 25m bags have absolutely no information on them? Absolutely zero?
Did you read the sentence right after that one? "Around 25m of them (5.7 per 1k bags checked) end up lost or misdirected. The 0.03% of bags that are still not reunited with their owners after 90 days are sold by the airline." 0.03% of 25m, and it's only after 90 days.
How does luggage ever get lost when they slap so many stickers on it?
I travel 30-40 times/yr and I can't recall ever putting more than one sticker on a checked bag...
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Probably comes down to how difficult it is to gain access, and whether that's destructive.
You can put whatever locks you want on your bags, but the TSA can and will cut anything they can't easily open. https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2014/02/18/tsa-travel-tips-tuesday-...
When it was founded 50 Yeats ago _maybe_ it made sense because technology was not that advanced. Now I'd say it's a company selling stolen goods. Airlines know who is the owner of that luggage. They have the sticker with flight, booking number, they have the contact details of the owner, and most owners put a tag with their contact info on the luggage. They were hired to provide the sole service of transporting the l…
Now the question is what happens to the bag floating in the ether. Option 1 is sending it to a landfill. Option 2 is cracking it open and reselling/reusing the stuff in it. There are plenty of ethical arguments in either one's favor, but it isn't as obvious as everyone is making it seem.