A passenger bought an airline ticket just to look for his lost luggage

[Shrek]

https://www.businessinsider.com/passenger-buys-air-ticket-look-for-lost-luggage-dublin-airport-2022-7

A passenger in Ireland bought a ticket just to get into Dublin Airport terminal's baggage claim to look for his luggage when it was still missing after a week.

Dermot Lennon arrived back in Dublin on June 28 after a trip to Brisbane, Australia, but had to leave without his luggage, he told RTÉ's Claire Byrne Show on Friday.

He went back on July 4 since his luggage was still missing and he wasn't getting any answers after calling the airport.

However, Lennon still couldn't retrieve his bag after spending the entire day at the airport on July 4 because authorities were only allowing a limited number of people to enter a restricted zone for luggage. There were also security checks involved, slowing down the process.

Lennon described the entire situation as "completely chaotic."

He decided to buy a ticket so he could go directly from departures to baggage claim the next day: "I went onto the website, and I got the cheapest ticket I could," which he said was a ticket to Glasgow, Scotland, for 18 euros ($18.20.)

Lennon went back again on July 5 and managed to get his bag back — after a few hours of navigating the airport before eventually getting to the baggage claim area.

"The place was littered with bags," he said, with "thousands of them all over the place."

[Tomconroy]

1. Headed to Ireland in November. Pray for my suitcase.

[Shrek]

3. I flew to Dublin from Edinburgh last month

Fortunately it was just a day trip so everything we carried was in our pockets.

We walked through baggage claim upon arrival (early morning) and it was chaos. We had a late-evening return flight (after 10 PM) and things were much quieter then. We got through security in less than 10 minutes.

[secondwind]

2. I always try to just travel with a roll-a-way and a backpack... I hate sifting through luggage, ugh

[Gruenemann]

5. Sometimes even that doesn't work.

An Air Canada passenger who recently lost luggage said she deliberately only packed a carry-on bag to avoid the travel disruption consuming the airline industry, but was later made to check the bag, only to have the airline misplace it.

Emily Maitino — who travelled with her partner from LAX to Barcelona via Air Canada on June 29 — told Insider that she was made to check the bag at LAX after the airline told her there was no more room for carry-ons.

She later realized the bag was missing after waiting at the luggage carousel in Barcelona for two hours.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-canada-lost-luggage-travel-chaos-cancelled-flights-airlines-aiports-2022-7