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No luggage!

Just had a text from my daughters who have just arrived in Tokyo on a Air France flight, to say that they have just been told that their luggage is still in Paris because they didn't have enough room on the plane for it! great start to their holiday!
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  • PeteDoff
    PeteDoff Posts: 428 Forumite
    It happens.
    Turning left avoids some of the idiots (only some)
  • duchy
    duchy Posts: 19,511 Forumite
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    Well they can let it ruin their trip or claim money for essentials from Air Franceand have fun shopping
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  • WaxiesDargle
    WaxiesDargle Posts: 1,062 Forumite
    that's ok then
  • WaxiesDargle
    WaxiesDargle Posts: 1,062 Forumite
    Cheers duchy

    it wont ruin their holiday...tthe luggage is on the next flight in a 4pm Tokyo time (about 9 hours)...just a bit of a inconvenience tis all

    still...'it happens'
  • PeteDoff
    PeteDoff Posts: 428 Forumite
    edited 1 August 2014 at 12:44AM
    just a bit of an inconvenience
    Turning left avoids some of the idiots (only some)
  • Cheers duchy

    it wont ruin their holiday...tthe luggage is on the next flight in a 4pm Tokyo time (about 9 hours)...just a bit of a inconvenience tis all

    still...'it happens'


    Yup, it happens.
    No big deal.
    Move along.
  • phatbear
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    Thanks for the update
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  • InsideInsurance
    InsideInsurance Posts: 22,460 Forumite
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    At least Air France know where it is and will be getting it to them.

    Thankfully never happened to me but a friend did get a call a few years ago when his bag didnt turn up saying they think it may be in Australia or possibly India. There was almost daily calls after that suggesting other places in the world that they thought it may be at before they finally saying it wasnt going to be found.
  • photome
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    edited 1 August 2014 at 7:50AM
    Cheers duchy

    it wont ruin their holiday...tthe luggage is on the next flight in a 4pm Tokyo time (about 9 hours)...just a bit of a inconvenience tis all

    still...'it happens'

    yep it happens

    has happened to me twice over the years.

    A 2 hour wait in airport for next flight once

    A 24 hour wait in resort once.

    Last year my case got wrecked on the return flight after we got bumped off one of the outbound flights

    .hit happens
  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 16,349 Forumite
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    Rather than hanging around the airport, they can ask AF to deliver it to wherever they are staying. In some ways a bonus if it is heavy.

    AF will reimburse the cost of essential purchases up to about fifty pounds (the details are on the web page, but hidden).
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