In all my travels my bag is not always on the carousel at my destination, but the people who help along the way keep my faith in humanity
I like to check my bag. I’m not sure why. I like the freedom of roaming around the airport without lugging a suitcase behind me. I don’t like the hassle of battling for space in the overhead bins or wondering whether my bag will fit on the smaller planes which fly into smaller airports. I don’t enjoy having to take out liquids and gels when I go through security. I want to use my precious legroom for my legs, not a suitcase.
On one occasion during a two night round trip to Birmingham, U.K., my bag showed up at my hotel only after I had returned home to Ottawa, despite me repeatedly informing the airline involved that I would no longer be at that hotel. Only by the grace of one of my U.K., colleagues, who travelled to the hotel and brought the bag back to the airport herself, was my bag received in Ottawa, safe and sound. Five weeks later.
More recently, when returning from California, a cancelled last leg Toronto-Ottawa flight resulted in a last-minute rebooking through Los Angeles International. So I had an extra eight hours in Monterey airport. As much as I love this small airport , there is not much to do. As we were finally boarding, the pilot barrelled down the jet bridge calling, “Ground delays at LAX. Everyone off!”
Of course, when I landed in Toronto, the new connecting flight - the reason that the whole itinerary had been rebooked in the first place - was now also cancelled. Five hours later I was home. My bag? It did not make it.
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