Between the time you leave your luggage in the time and place at your destination, it is May, through a maze of conveyor belts and baggage trolleys luggage carts, once on board, luggage tumble May at the cargo hold of the aircraft, if crude hits air.
Evenly among the airlines, but only relatively few bags are damaged or lost. With a little sense of packaging and other arrangements, luggage probably among those who will come.
<b> packaging </ b>
You pack to avoid problems. Some objects should never be in a bag, which you control in the cargo compartment:
* Lower value: cash, credit cards, jewelry, cameras.
* Criticism Article: medicines, keys, passport, visit of checks, documents, business.
* Irreplaceable items: manuscript, heritage.
* The fragile items: eyeglasses, glass containers, liquids (see the latest rules for liquids.
Should be based on things like your person or packaged in a hand is that the seat Remember that the only way to ensure that your valuables are not damaged or lost is to keep you. Even if your bag is not all lost, corresponding to delays of one or two days. Non-perishable goods in their luggage, they spoil May, when they are delayed. It is advisable to order the items you need during the first 24 hours in hand luggage (such as toiletries, a change of underwear).
Check with the airline for its limits on the size, weight or the number of non-checked baggage. (There is no federal standard.) If you have more than one airline, whether on each. Find out about your flight, different aircraft may have different names. Do not show that the flight is unlimited private room, to the manufacture of bags, some in May need to be examined.
If you plan to go shopping, your destination and your purchases on board as hand luggage think borders. If these purchases, however, the revenue separately, they are required to apply for May, if the goods are lost or damaged. Not everything in hand, as a weapon (eg scissors, pen knives).
Checked baggage is also at the borders. On most flights, and abroad, it is checked bags (three if you do not hand luggage). There may be a fee if you do more, or if you exceed the limits of the airline on the size of the bags. On some flights between two cities Affairs, your support in May to the weight of the bag than the number of coins.
This also applies bags, which will cost you nothing to check if your journey to a surplus of researchers luggage in a system of weighted voting. Ask the airlines about the limit for each segment of your trip before leaving the house, especially if you stop one or two days, or if you are the carriers.
The bags should be marked, inside and outside with your name, address and telephone number. Include the name and address of a contact person at your destination when it is convenient. Almost all the bags are gone astray from the airlines do not, sooner or later. With labels, their own pocket and can usually be in a few hours.
Not on packaging with a bag. This makes the pressure on the locks, which makes it easier for them day open. If you plan to check the electrical, glassware, small electrical appliances, pottery, typewriters, musical instruments or other fragile items, they must be in a specially developed to get a brutal handling * preferably a factory sealed box or a padded hard hull transport.
<b> check-in </ b>
Do not check at the last minute. Even if you do not take the flight bag May. If you are not from the airline due to the shipper does not take responsibility for your bag if it is postponed or rejected. If you have the choice of the flights you need to minimize the risk of luggage.
The probability for a lost bag of # 1 to # 4 below (ie, # 1 is the safest): 1) flight without landing 2) directly or through the theft (one or more, but no change in the device), 3) online connection (change of the surface, but not airlines) 4) inter-carrier connection (change of aircraft and airlines).
If you save it, the hooks and straps bags of clothing that you use as luggage. This can be in the luggage of machinery for processing, damages in the case. The airline, the baggage labels target your luggage and give you the closures for use as a claim checks. Make sure a buffer for each bag. Do not throw away before you and your back pocket for the content. Not only that you need, if an application is required, but you need to May, give them the security at the exit from the baggage claim.
Every day is a three letter code and flight number show that the baggage sorters on which plane and the airport baggage go. Check the label before you make your suitcase in the belt of the conveyor. (The airline will be happy, the code of your destination when you make reservations or buy your tickets.)
Bags May only using one of your stops as your destination when it is associated with too little of the customs destination, or if you have a connection between two airlines, which are not d an agreement is made. Make sure all the tags from previous trips are of the bag, because they confuse May Porters occupied.
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Many cases are similar. Once you have what you think of your bag on the carousel, check the name or number tag on the label of the bag. If your luggage is open or obviously unlocked is damaged, check in to determine whether all the contents are missing or damaged. Report on problems with the airline before leaving the airport, on a form.
Open your suitcase when you are immediately to the place where you are. Damage to the contents or theft immediately to the company by phone. Write down the date and time of call, name and telephone number of the person with whom you have spoken. Immediately with a letter to the airline.
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