From: "Phil Payne" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article ,
> "Phil Payne"  wrote:
> >
> >Big problem - finding all their bags.
>
> It had to be done for the men who were offloaded anyway.

It isn't until it's done that you realise how haphazard the whole loading
process is anyway.  All of the airlines operate on the principle that it's
OK as long as the passenger has no knowledge of how any individual bag is
treated.  On the really frequent flights like Frankfurt-London, if you
check in early your bag might well go on an earlier flight just to help
with their load balancing.  More than once I've got to London and found my
bag arrived on the flight before and has been taken to security.  As has
been publicly admitted, 10,000 bags were wandering around without their
passengers during the latest scare.  Some were trucked, but a lot were
flown.

During the Baader-Meinhof business, Lufthansa made you kick your bag on the
tarmac before they would load it.  Bagg too many/bag too few issues were
resolved on the tarmac in front of the aircraft, and there were a lot.

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