[IncPen]

Following my nightmare with United, concerning a theft from my suitcase while it passed through their baggage claim, I'm in favor of the death penalty for anyone who steals from luggage.

Call it air piracy and hang a few of them.

I'm not joking.

[linda_22003]

Wow, you must have been carrying something really valuable! I don't, in checked luggage.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Same experience here. I think it was Delta. Upon filing a theft-loss complaint, their attitude was something I'd paraphrase as: "How stupid can you possibly be to trust us?".

[hunter112]

I know what you mean, they screen each of us passengers like we're the Unabomber, yet Hophead Willie gets to skirt security on his way to steal salables from the luggage of "rich" tourists. Sort of like communism, without the commissar.

I say, a full patdown search of all baggage handlers, plus one of those "see through" machines that show all your body parts, as well as what you're smuggling out of the baggage department. Every single day, every single shift. Frequent random drug testing is a damn good idea, too.