Posted on 01/25/2023 11:28:29 PM PST by grundle
After tracking their lost luggage for four months with an AirTag, one Ontario couple was shocked to learn that Air Canada had allegedly donated their suitcase to a charity.
After sitting in a storage facility in Montreal for four weeks, Rees said they finally watched their bag being shipped to a facility in Etobicoke in the GTA.
“We got really excited because we’re like ‘Oh it’s coming back to Toronto, it’s going to go to a processing facility, this is awesome,'” Rees said.
However, the suitcase remained there for more than three months.
In the meantime, Rees says that Air Canada compensated them a "quarter" of the value of the three weeks of clothes in her husbands suitcase.
"They didn't even give me the option to accept that money because they transferred it," Rees said.
The couple called Air Canada multiple times but were not successful in retrieving the bags. That's when they finally decided to check out the storage facility in Etobicoke themselves.
“We started peering through some doors with our flashlight in the public storage facility until we found the one that was piled floor to ceiling high with luggage,” she said.
"Floor to ceiling, wall-to-wall—just luggage."
After their trip, they finally involved the police and were shocked at what they saw next.
“Our luggage was donated to a charity on behalf of Air Canada because they deemed it lost even though we were tracking our luggage last for the last four months,” Rees said. “It was never actually truly lost because we know where it was the entire time.”
The police also found over 500 pieces of suitcases, with a lot of bags containing iPhones, laptops, and AirTags.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
When I used to fly the only thing I’d carry was a carry on bag.
If this was in the US, it would be called “conversion”, which actually has greater civil penalties than theft.
Trouble is, nowadays, everyone wants to carry everything on, taking up more than their share of cargo bin space.
Seems every time I fly, I heard the stewardess say, "We have full flight today..."
NEVER check anything you don’t want to lose.
TrueDope’s fault...
FTA: After sitting in a storage facility in Montreal for four weeks, Rees said they finally watched their bag being shipped to a facility in Etobicoke in the GTA.
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The question of why Mrs Rees would choose to sit in a storage facility for four weeks certainly adds to the mystery, in my opinion.
There was a time when writers of news items were expected to have basic composition skills.
“In an interview with Global News, Toronto criminal defence lawyer Marcus Bornfreund said that the “airline is not lawfully in possession of that bag. It was delayed, lost and then found.”
“It hasn’t been signed over to Air Canada at any point,” he added.”
If the airline “is not lawfully in possession of that bag” and it was never signed over to Air Canada, then where did they get the authority and right to donate the baggage to charity?
What if their passengers decided to donate their planes to charity all of the sudden?
We hate Air Canada.
We have relatives in Canada and the only plane from our local airport to Toronto (which is the connection hub we need) is an old prop plane.
The problem is that it cannot handle much luggage so usually the luggage is sent on another plane—and the luggage often misses the connecting flight.
Passengers have been complaining about this for a decade—they refuse to do anything about it.
The relatives recently moved to Vancouver Island (more than 3,000 miles plus a ferry ride away)—we are not visiting them anymore!
If I ever get out of here - thought of giving it all away - to a registered charity...
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