Frequent-flier Bob Schneider doesn’t want to be in the same shoes as passengers who filed 1.8 million reports of mishandled bags with airlines during the first 10 months of this year.
To avoid checked-baggage problems, Schneider of Medford, Mass., leaves a suit, shirts and pants at a dry cleaner in Indianapolis, where he flies to each week on business.
Schneider’s actions may seem extreme to many fliers, because most checked bags aren’t lost, delayed, damaged or stolen.
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More bags, though, are mishandled in December than in any other month, so travelers may wish to take steps to minimize the chance of a bag going astray or being damaged during the peak holiday travel season.
Last December, 19 U.S. airlines carried 45.9 million passengers and received nearly 320,000 reports of mishandled bags. That’s about double the amount of bags that were mishandled during the previous month.
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