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  #11  
Old February 21st 07, 10:24 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Stan
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Flew out of Sacramento Friday morning on Southwest headed for Denver (San
Diego, Phoenix, Denver, whew). Got to Denver with two of our snowboard bags
and one other bag missing. One snowboard bag made it okay so only one out
of four pieces arrived safely. We intended to board Saturday and Sunday at
Keystone and Southwest gave us a voucher for equipment rental and said they
would cover up to $50 for other items, I assume for each person but am not
sure. I doubt if we would have gone for that though. After maybe an hour
in Denver airport trying to sort things out, we went in to Denver to have
dinner. After dinner we got a call that the bags were at the airport. They
couldn't or wouldn't tell me what happened to them but I'm assuming they
were taken off in San Diego or Phoenix. They have baggage tags with
barcodes and I asked why they don't scan them and the woman said because of
the rapid turn around of their planes. I would bet they spent more time
trying to figure out what happened to my luggage than it would have taken to
scan the whole plane's baggage. There were three other passengers that had
lost luggage on that flight as well.

PS.. never fly through Vegas the day after the NBA All Star game is played
there.

Stan.

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On Feb 21, 1:53 pm, Nobody wrote:
On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:

On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem.


Joe Ramirez


JetBlue blues?


No, Northwest, but the level of ineptitude was similar. Our flight was
delayed for a long time because the pilots were unable to properly
input the flight plan. When they finally figured it out, we had been
taxiing for so long that we were short on fuel, so we had to go back
to the gate to refuel and de-ice again. We also had to make an
emergency stop in Chicago because a passenger had a medical problem
(though we were three hours late even without that stop). Of course we
missed our connection, causing both further delay as we scrambled and
fought to get on a later flight to SLC, and also the luggage snafu --
it was apparently rerouted to SLC via Missoula, Montana. My sister and
brother-in-law, who were meeting us in Utah, also had problems; their
flight was canceled and they had to buy a whole new set of tickets, so
they arrived in SLC at about the same time as my snowboard.


Where did you go in the SLC area, and how was the snow?


One day at Snowbird and one at Brighton. Beautiful sunny days with
blue skies. Maybe a little too warm on Sunday. The snow was very nice
at both resorts by my Pennsylvania standards -- soft and plentiful.
Lots of powder in the Mineral Basin area of Snowbird, I heard from my
other brother-in-law, who sort of took a bath in it; I did not venture
there myself. A very slight icy veneer began to form in the late
afternoon of both days; nothing unusual about that. I believe that
about 7 inches of snow fell in the canyons on Thursday night, but I
didn't experience it because Friday was my lost luggage day. However,
I have no complaints about the conditions I encountered.

Joe Ramirez


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  #13  
Old February 22nd 07, 01:42 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
tg
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?


"Stan" wrote in message
. ..
Flew out of Sacramento Friday morning on Southwest headed for Denver (San

snip
PS.. never fly through Vegas the day after the NBA All Star game is
played there.

Stan.

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On Feb 21, 1:53 pm, Nobody wrote:
On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:

snip Joe Ramirez



The airlines haven't lost my board bag.... yet. But I ALWAYS carry on my
boots. I have a carryon sports bag that fits my
boots/helmet/goggles/gloves/socks and a set of first layer if packed
efficiently (Socks in boots, gloves/goggles in helmet). Wear my jacket on.
I figure I can always rent a board, but the boots I just can't do without.
The bag could even fit my small pack with shovel/probe but the airlines
don't like the shovel as a carryon so that goes in the board bag. BTW - I
leave the bindings attached and put all my clothes in those roll-up type
vacuum bags and pack those around the boards.


  #14  
Old February 23rd 07, 02:15 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Mike M. Miskulin
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

"tg" wrote in news:erk6kj$2s87$1
@news.louisville.edu:

leave the bindings attached and put all my clothes in those roll-

up type
vacuum bags and pack those around the boards.


but what happens on the trip home? Are you stealing the
maids vacuum?
  #15  
Old February 26th 07, 09:14 AM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Jeremy
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

Mike M. Miskulin wrote:

Yeah that sucks if both bags are lost...I guess the theory is
the board bag is more likely to be late thus put the clothes in
the other bag. Of course, one could attempt to board the plane
fully dressed with helmet though I suspect TSA would subject you
to a few verses of Moon River first.


For what it's worth, I don't trust my helmet to the baggage handlers. Pretty
much everything else will either show damage from a major hit, or take it in
reasonable stride. I don't feel so confident about head gear. I might also
do the same with boots, were my tastes not so esoteric as to make renting the
rest of the gear unlikely.

My helmet fits in the bottom of my back pack, under the seat or overhead
without a second glance. I've heard of white water flotation vests being
worn on-board with nary a comment.

Jeremy
  #16  
Old February 26th 07, 09:16 AM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Jeremy
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

Mike M. Miskulin wrote:
"tg" wrote in news:erk6kj$2s87$1
@news.louisville.edu:


leave the bindings attached and put all my clothes in those roll-

up type
vacuum bags and pack those around the boards.


but what happens on the trip home? Are you stealing the
maids vacuum?


Nah. Roll them just like the travel versions. Hold the flap open with your
hand until satisfied.

Jeremy
  #17  
Old March 16th 07, 10:59 AM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Jolly_O
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

A few weeks ago, Northwest lost my stuff at SLC also. It caught up
with me two days later. Up to the moment of delivery, they said that
they weren't absolutely sure that it was my bag - in spite of the fact
that there were TWO name tags on it. Can't they read?

Jack

On 21 Feb 2007 13:46:21 -0800, wrote:

On Feb 21, 1:53 pm, Nobody wrote:
On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:

On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem.


Joe Ramirez


JetBlue blues?


No, Northwest, but the level of ineptitude was similar. Our flight was
delayed for a long time because the pilots were unable to properly
input the flight plan. When they finally figured it out, we had been
taxiing for so long that we were short on fuel, so we had to go back
to the gate to refuel and de-ice again. We also had to make an
emergency stop in Chicago because a passenger had a medical problem
(though we were three hours late even without that stop). Of course we
missed our connection, causing both further delay as we scrambled and
fought to get on a later flight to SLC, and also the luggage snafu --
it was apparently rerouted to SLC via Missoula, Montana. My sister and
brother-in-law, who were meeting us in Utah, also had problems; their
flight was canceled and they had to buy a whole new set of tickets, so
they arrived in SLC at about the same time as my snowboard.


Where did you go in the SLC area, and how was the snow?


One day at Snowbird and one at Brighton. Beautiful sunny days with
blue skies. Maybe a little too warm on Sunday. The snow was very nice
at both resorts by my Pennsylvania standards -- soft and plentiful.
Lots of powder in the Mineral Basin area of Snowbird, I heard from my
other brother-in-law, who sort of took a bath in it; I did not venture
there myself. A very slight icy veneer began to form in the late
afternoon of both days; nothing unusual about that. I believe that
about 7 inches of snow fell in the canyons on Thursday night, but I
didn't experience it because Friday was my lost luggage day. However,
I have no complaints about the conditions I encountered.

Joe Ramirez

  #18  
Old March 16th 07, 02:45 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

On Mar 16, 5:59 am, Jolly_O wrote:
A few weeks ago, Northwest lost my stuff at SLC also. It caught up
with me two days later. Up to the moment of delivery, they said that
they weren't absolutely sure that it was my bag - in spite of the fact
that there were TWO name tags on it. Can't they read?

Jack

On 21 Feb 2007 13:46:21 -0800, wrote:



On Feb 21, 1:53 pm, Nobody wrote:
On 21 Feb 2007 09:15:46 -0800, wrote:


On the plus side, since all the luggage was late, it wasn't my packing
strategy that caused the problem.


Joe Ramirez


JetBlue blues?


No, Northwest, but the level of ineptitude was similar. Our flight was
delayed for a long time because the pilots were unable to properly
input the flight plan. When they finally figured it out, we had been
taxiing for so long that we were short on fuel, so we had to go back
to the gate to refuel and de-ice again. We also had to make an
emergency stop in Chicago because a passenger had a medical problem
(though we were three hours late even without that stop). Of course we
missed our connection, causing both further delay as we scrambled and
fought to get on a later flight to SLC, and also the luggage snafu --
it was apparently rerouted to SLC via Missoula, Montana. My sister and
brother-in-law, who were meeting us in Utah, also had problems; their
flight was canceled and they had to buy a whole new set of tickets, so
they arrived in SLC at about the same time as my snowboard.


Where did you go in the SLC area, and how was the snow?


One day at Snowbird and one at Brighton. Beautiful sunny days with
blue skies. Maybe a little too warm on Sunday. The snow was very nice
at both resorts by my Pennsylvania standards -- soft and plentiful.
Lots of powder in the Mineral Basin area of Snowbird, I heard from my
other brother-in-law, who sort of took a bath in it; I did not venture
there myself. A very slight icy veneer began to form in the late
afternoon of both days; nothing unusual about that. I believe that
about 7 inches of snow fell in the canyons on Thursday night, but I
didn't experience it because Friday was my lost luggage day. However,
I have no complaints about the conditions I encountered.


Joe Ramirez- Hide quoted text -


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What did you do in the meantime? This is like the worst nightmare
and could screw up your whole trip. Did you have to rent? Did they
reimburse you?

My worst experience was with British Airways, but fortunately it
wasn't snowboard related. They lost my main luggage bag and also a
seperate bag flying from Heathrow to Milan. And they were totally
incompetent and unable to track them down. I eventually found my
main luggage bag the day after my flight came in, sitting at the
airport in Milan. It was American Airlines that tracked it down for
me and told me that it should have come into Milan on a later BA
flight. I went back to the airport at 7am the next morning. And
it's a good thing I did. What was really amazing was that BA just
left it sitting in a corner of the baggage claim area with a dozen
other pieces of luggage, no lockup or supervision. Anyone could have
walked up and taken it and there was no security/customs checkpoint
after that. You would think they would have sense enough that when
it finally comes in, it's unclaimed and someone has to take it off the
belt, they would put it in a secure area. I never did find
the second bag. They eventually told me it was sent back to JFK,
despite my having given them a cell #, info on where I was staying,
etc in the loss report. And after it went to JFK, that was the last
anyone heard of it. I sure wasn't there to pick it up.

And recently, BA lost a friends luggage for a whole week. His flight
got delayed due to bad weather in Europe and when he got to JFK, no
luggge. They had a huge screw up at Heathrow. Which, is
understandable. But a week? At 4 days, they finally tell him it's
at JFK. But then, it takes another 3 days to get it to him in NJ?
And this guy has millions of freq flyer miles with AA, who he flew on
for most the trip and AA is BA's partner, his bags are marked as
Platinum priority, etc. He's in AA's top 1% of customers and he was
flying business class on a $4500 ticket. If they treat him like
that, God help the rest of us. To AA's credit, when he complained to
them, they gave him 50,000 freq flier miles for the inconvenience.

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Old March 17th 07, 12:32 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Jolly_O
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What did you do in the meantime? This is like the worst nightmare
and could screw up your whole trip. Did you have to rent? Did they
reimburse you?


Thankfully, my loss was on the trip home. No harm, just a lot of
worry. My total reimbursement was a coupon worth $25 off a flight.
Big deal.

I did have another SCARY event on the trip. I am a snowboarder and
skier, and my first day of the vacation was at Alta, where they don't
allow snowboards. I had a BRAND NEW pair of skis with me that I had
purchased at the end of last season when I could get a good deal. I
put the skis in a rack about 15 feet from the lift ticket booth. I
bought my ticket, and when I got back to the rack, my skis were GONE!
I was panicking big time. I RAN to the parking lot in my ski boots
looking for the sorry SOB, but saw nobody going toward their car. I
RAN back to the ticket area, and saw a guy with MY SKIS on, casually
talking to two buddies. I confronted him, and he offered no
resistance, saying that he rented skis this morning, and must have
grabbed the wrong ones. Geez. Whether he was telling the truth or
not, in seconds he would have been down the hill and I would never
have seen the skis again.

Jack
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Old March 17th 07, 12:34 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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Default Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?

On Mar 17, 7:32 am, Jolly_O wrote:
What did you do in the meantime? This is like the worst nightmare
and could screw up your whole trip. Did you have to rent? Did they
reimburse you?


Thankfully, my loss was on the trip home. No harm, just a lot of
worry. My total reimbursement was a coupon worth $25 off a flight.
Big deal.

I did have another SCARY event on the trip. I am a snowboarder and
skier, and my first day of the vacation was at Alta, where they don't
allow snowboards. I had a BRAND NEW pair of skis with me that I had
purchased at the end of last season when I could get a good deal. I
put the skis in a rack about 15 feet from the lift ticket booth. I
bought my ticket, and when I got back to the rack, my skis were GONE!
I was panicking big time. I RAN to the parking lot in my ski boots
looking for the sorry SOB, but saw nobody going toward their car. I
RAN back to the ticket area, and saw a guy with MY SKIS on, casually
talking to two buddies. I confronted him, and he offered no
resistance, saying that he rented skis this morning, and must have
grabbed the wrong ones. Geez. Whether he was telling the truth or
not, in seconds he would have been down the hill and I would never
have seen the skis again.

Jack


Now that'a a new one! LOL The guy probably just made a mistake,
given
that he was still standing there with his buddies. On the other
hand, most
of the rental stuff I've ever seen is hard to confuse with something
brand new.

Speaking of having things stolen, I had a Burton Custom stolen a few
years back
at Killington, VT. I had used one of the retractable combination
locks to secure it
while I took a break at the bar. I learned that those type locks are
not very secure
at all. Now I use one of the cable combination locks that uses much
thicker cable,
similar to a bicycle lock. It coils up easily and fits in my jacket.



 




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