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Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
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. wrote in message oups.com... 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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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. wrote in message oups.com... 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. |
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"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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 - - Show quoted text - 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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Snowboard bag - leave bindings attached?
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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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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