TRAVEL
By Los Angeles Times | June 22, 2008
I recently traveled between Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C., on Delta with a single piece of luggage. At curbside check-in in Charlotte, the check-in guy barked, "You have to remove 8 pounds from this bag right now or go inside and pay $50." Because of a bad back, I said I would pay the $50 rather than hassle with the bag. In flight, I discovered I had been charged $80. I was outraged and want my money back. How can this type of thing be avoided? Either by packing lighter or getting the price of fuel under control.
NEWS
By Les Cohen | July 18, 2011
Why do the airlines allow all the passengers on a given flight to carry on luggage, winter coats (if it's that time of the year) and all manner of other stuff, regardless of the overhead space available to hold those items? I've been traveling a lot lately. If you fly at all, you know that many passengers with smaller suitcases, usually "rollaboards" (suitcases with wheels to make them easier to carry), take their suitcases on board to be stored in overhead compartments. They do this to avoid having to wait at baggage claim - for their luggage to return from Tahiti, where it was mistakenly sent - and to save the checked baggage frees many airlines charge.
FEATURES
By Rod Stafford Hagwood and Rod Stafford Hagwood,Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel | July 29, 1992
Technology is bringing that ol' kit bag into the 20th century . . . and beyond.Some baggage even calls out for you. California-based ACTS has a bag with an electronic beeping device that alerts you to its location -- assuming you know your beep from the cry of someone else's luggage. (The Sentry 2000 carry-on retails for about $495.)The same company offers luggage with card locks instead of key or combination locks. You slip your identity card (about the size of a credit card) through a slot to unlock your bags.
FEATURES
By SUN STAFF | July 13, 2001
Chaja is struggling with plenty of excess baggage - and that doesn't even include the missing suitcases that her father buried at the height of World War II, suitcases that contain her family's fortune. Director Jeroen Krabbe's Left Luggage is about Chaja's struggles to remain true to a faith that seems to have little to do with her life as a philosophy student in the early 1970s, the era of free love and free thinking. The film is a thoughtful, but by no means somber, look at an issue that might strike a particular chord with Jews.
FEATURES
By ROB KASPER | June 5, 1993
Having recently returned from a trek to the beach, I have a warning for anyone thinking about strapping luggage to the top of his car. Remember that the minute you place a suitcase on your car roof, rain clouds begin to form.You may make it over to the ocean or to another vacation destination without getting wet. But eventually, a storm will strike you. The wind will howl. The heavens will open. Your suitcases will be soaked.While I'm in the advice-giving mode, here is some for anyone considering a weekend drive to the Atlantic Ocean beaches: Leave right now!
BUSINESS
By Andrew Leckey and Andrew Leckey,Tribune Media Services | July 7, 1993
It was my first two-way airline baggage mishap.On a recent trip, Northwest Airlines misplaced my luggage on the flight out and on the return flight as well.At departure, the checked bags were improperly tagged by the skycap. It took a day to find them in San Francisco, rather than in my destination city of Seattle. On the way back, the bags didn't make the connection between Northwest flights in Detroit, although I did. A day later, the bags were delivered to my home.My inconvenience, of course, is small potatoes compared to the experience of Felice Lippert, whose bag containing more than $400,000 worth of jewelry was lost at a Palm Beach International Airport security checkpoint in 1986.