US Airways, offloading passengers not luggage though

stevebrodie

Hi,

In this day and age i thought that no luggage could travel without its owner, is this stil lthe case and if so is thier a document from the FAA, CAA outlining this security policy. When we could not be seated together with my children even though we were promised, and no one would swap seats we were regretfully off loaded from the plane by the captain, but our luggage stayed on board ?!

Security breach ?

neilbond007

Luggage flies without it's owner all the time. Several times my bag never arrived on the same flight as me.
Happened last month when my golf clubs stayed in Atlanta and caught a different flight

dzug1

Well yes security breach but in terms of security (though not you) an inconsequential and trivial one.

Pollycat

As neilbondoo7 says, when luggage is not loaded onto the right plane and goes off somewhere else (without the owner) or the luggage isn't loaded onto the plane and then is loaded onto the next plane to that destination, it DOES travel without the owner.

So it does happen.

Are you saying that because the airline couldn't seat you together (or at least 1 parent with 1 child together), THE AIRLINE offloaded you?

Were you kicking off about the seating?

Were you given a choice about being off-loaded or not?

What do you mean about 'promised' to be sat together?

What happened on the actual flight you took?
Were you sat together then?

What efforts were made by the crew on the original flight to get passengers to swap seats?
They usually (in my experience) do tannoy announcements asking for volunteers.

This is quite a strange post given what you say in your other post about not being sat together - which doesn't mention off-loading.

Maybe it would be better to edit one of your posts to give the whole story of what happened.

I think if you were not sat together, the issue of unaccompanied luggage is fairly trivial and I wouldn't include it in any complaint to US Airways as it will muddy the waters and possibly allow them to adress that issue instead of your real complaint which is about seat allocation and possible off-loading.

stevebrodie

Thanks all, have updated other post with answers to above questions.

Pollycat

Might be me but I can't see it where you've updated the other thread.......

dzug1

Pollycat wrote: »

Might be me but I can't see it where you've updated the other thread.......

Nor can I .......padding to 10+ characters

stevebrodie

All, apologies. I did click on the submit 'button', but did not wait to see if it had posted, now realise after updating the op correctly i needed to take out the hyperlink, for the system to allow the reply to be posted, sorry for any confussion caused. op is now updated with answers :-)

Steve