Although I lock my luggage to protect it from any theiving baggage handlers abroad and in the UK, I nearly always find the ring broken and it is difficult to tell if anything is missing amongst so many items of clothing etc. If customs or security in the UK are doing it, should they not do it in our presence because baggage handlers could then steal from open luggage and also if customs or security then accused the owner of the luggage of possessing drugs or whatever, the owner could easily deny the calim because it was not opened in their presence. Suitcases are also quite epensive and after spending so much on travelling it is not fair that we have to throw away another £35 to £50. I have claimed money from the airlines for suitcases in the past and they have eventually paid up on the threat of court action.
2007-01-28 02:42:25 · 5 answers · asked by loodan 2 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
International travel rules say that bags must be unlocked so they can be inspected at random. After you check you luggage it gets x-rayed and random checks are done for ilegal items and dangerous items.
The point here should be that the more information should be provided to the passengers when checking their luggage. The checker should not only asked if you packed the bag, if anyone other then you has put something into it, but that the bag must be unlocked.
I told a traveling companion about this as his bags were locked. He sneared and told me I was wrong. When he got his bags back each and every lock had been broken or cut off.
How else is security supposed to check your bags for bombs, drugs, illegal stuffs???
2007-01-28 02:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by shovelkicker 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the way our luggage is tossed about,its a joke.
There again I suppose the baggage handlers are under pressure to get our bags to us a quick as they can.
Dont know about you but I get mad if I have to wait too long for my cases when your tired after travelling for hours.
2007-01-28 02:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by Pat R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's how it is. They tell you to leave it unlocked, then they always break open the locked ones. I think that's done partly to discourage you from locking it again. But I think it was really wrong of them to break the zipper rings. They should have just broken the lock. I live in the US, here we have TSA locks. I travel abroad using US TSA locks and seems other countries don't break these either.
2007-01-28 03:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by averagebear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did he propose on or around a trip or birthday? if so, i think i've got heard that legally, you could declare lack of understanding and say you thought it became a contemporary! At any value, i might anticipate that ninety days is a lifelike quantity of time. i'm a landlord, and if the tenant strikes out and would not declare their stuff interior of that factor, it is going to become 'abandoned.'
2016-11-01 12:14:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is because airport security needs them open to inspect at random. No one is allowed to lock their luggage before putting it on a plane, because they don't want terrorists to be able to hide bombs in locked luggage.
If you want them to stop cutting your luggage, then stop locking it!
2007-01-28 03:18:16 · answer #5 · answered by Jess O 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋