We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.
Everyone? First order of business, go buy a gel-filled bra.
TSA: Prohibited Items — Here is the entire TSA memo on what you can and cannot take on board. The days of travelling light so you do not have to check luggae are OVER. Now you have to check luggage and expect it to get lost or detained. There is a good site to lost luggage information here.
Interesting statistics about luggage problems with he airlines, last year air travel increased about 5% amongst air travelers but complaints about baggage doubled. Roughly the airline industry mishandled about 6 out of every 1000 bags. That’s not too bad, unless the bag that is lost belongs to you. the airlines have a higher stake now more than ever to insure your luggage gets to you. The amount the airlines has to pay you for your lost luggage has doubled from $1,250 to $2,500. With those fees, airlines are struggling to find a better way to move and track luggage, but they still have to deal the majority of the time with an outdated system.
The manner in which airlines move and track luggage has stayed the same for the last ten or so years. Except for a few airports that have placed electronic scanners throughout the baggage process, most airlines have not way to tell where your luggage is.
When you do the math this means that on every flight a shade more than one bag out of 200 is lost or mishandled. That means two or three bags per a normal flight. How is this acceptable? Worse is the extended time wasted waiting for the bags. This is ridiculous forcing people to check luggage like this.
Now some consideration has to be given to the exploding laptops from Dell and Apple. On transatlantic flights where the Brits were not letting people carry on anything what happens to the laptop that explodes in the cargo bay? If a laptop catches on fire in the cabin it can be extinguished. In the cargo bay the whole plane can go up in smoke. Air travel is getting worse and worse.
found by Lloyd Allen
