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On Jan 3, 1:04 pm, "Craig" wrote:
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On Jan 3, 11:45 am, "singlemalt" wrote:
My wife put a TSA approved luggage lock on her suitcase and it got
caught
on
something and ripped off the zippers. The airlines take no
responsibility
for such damage and the cost of repair is worth more than the bag,
therefore, new bag. There was nothing in the bag that valuable to
start
with. Think twice about putting a lock on your bag.

could be a baggage handler thought there was something in there worth
locking, and ripped the thing off....

I cant imagine what would have gotten caught and ripped it off
otherwise...

You've probably never traveled through Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport
then,
where recently a piece of luggage jammed on a conveyor belt so long that
the
friction heated the luggage until it started smoking. The smoke finally
alerted folks that something was wrong, but at that point, the concern
was
that the bag was the cause of the smoke so the airport was shut down as a
flammable materials/bomb precaution until they realized the bag contained
nothing dangerous and that it was a airport conveyor belt issue.

Ah, to travel by air these days...

Craig in AZ

yes, but did the bag rip? Probably not......


Coming off a Hawaiian Airlines flight in the 1990's, 1/2 the bags were
ripped. On the trip over the Samsonite suitcase was bent. Lots of bad
equipment and handlers.