Incandescent with rage - lost luggage.

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Sitting here in the same clothes I have been wearing for the last 36 hours. My suitcase is lost somewhere in the Middle East. Just phoned the airline and asked what was happening and they jabbered something and then slammed the phone down on me. Not responding to emails so have taken to Twitter in the hopes of some response.

AIBU to be absolutely livid.

I had my bag lost in transit once - business trip in the height of summer but bag left at the airport between 2 flights. I got compo for the change of clothes, toiletries and makeup I needed to buy (in Geneva so stonkingly high for me!).

But since then, I've made it a point to always have a change in my handluggage (not necessarily a full change, but underwear, socks and clean top) and toiletries/makeup as needed. This also happened before having DD, so it was useful coming to travelling with her having that mindset - as she threw up all over me more than once, and I had a change for her and I in my bag.

"Emergency change" things can be as small as a freezer bag, and if you use a Ziploc type, squeezing the air out means it can be a very small tight parcel in the bottom of the bag. Even if you are travelling for business with limited room.

Maybe it's just the girl guide "Be Prepared" in me....

"Incandescent with rage" that was my sister, 32 weeks pg, on her last possible visit to the UK (she lives abroad) before the baby was born. Air France had lost her luggage. This was well before social media, so, as we'd met in London, what else to do but march round to Air France's London office and stage a hormonal woman protest?

She got compensation, then clothed herself entirely from the sale rail at Gap. Also M&S - where half the stuff didn't scan through properly.

That baby is now 16, and the bag never did show up.

I must tell this: recently my SILs luggage went missing on a trip out to PILs Greek holiday home. Once at the house she rang the airport to find out what had happened and was told there was some mix up involving a taxi with a non English speaking driver currently looking for PILs house with said luggage on board.

SIL got hold of taxi driver but was getting nowhere. MIL has been learning Greek and announced ''give me the phone, i'll deal with this!''. SIL gratefully handed over the phone and MIL shouted down it in English WHERE....ARE....YOU?!?! SIL was

They laughed about it later

I learnt the hard way to always pack a change of underwear and a spare t-shirt plus a swimsuit in hand luggage.

And to distribute the family's clothes across different bags if anything is going in the hold - it is usually my bag that goes missing.

"Put some essentials in your hand luggage" is scant comfort when your weekend hand luggage gets sequestered into the hold by bossy flight attendants on a Dublin, Edinburgh or City Airport flight where EVERYONE has hand luggage.

At City they are ruthless about taking hand luggage into the hold as you board the plane - it's not optional at all.

OP, I'd be extremely annoyed as well.

We normally do a week's beach holiday with just hand luggage. Maybe take one extra hold bag between the six of us for toiletries and stuff they don't like in hand luggage.

Couldn't make it up, just got home and my case has gone astray again!

Do people not pack an emergency set of clothes in their bags? I'm traveling internationally tonight actually (for Christmas ) with my 4 month old - I've packed like 4 sets of clothes for baby, my spare clothes, an extra top and underwear. All in an airline approved suitcase for hand luggage. I also have a baby bag with me for the nappies etc.... here's hoping my luggage doesn't go missing

shutup I don't usually pack emergency clothes but I guess I probably should. I do always take essentials like medications, eye glasses, basic toiletries, etc. in a smallish bag that doesn't have to go in the overhead lockers.

I just don't like to lug hand luggage on to the plane and as has been said upthread - I've had my hand luggage sequestered to the hold on flights from the City - commuter flights are notorious for this and if you have medications, etc in it then you are screwed.