How to protect baggage from loss and theft at the airport?

The loss and theft of luggage at the airport, unfortunately, happen quite often . This is a very unpleasant situation, but anyone can come to it, but what should be done to prevent this from happening, we will now find out.

1. First, you need to buy a bag or suitcase that will differ from everyone, for example, an unusual shape or bright color. So you can quickly find out your luggage on the conveyor belt. Yes, and if it is lost, it will be much easier and easier for the goods to describe it, so it will be found faster.
2. If your luggage is of a dark color and does not differ in any way from the rest, then it should be highlighted, for example, with a red tape or some sticker. But the key fobs are not worth hanging, there is no guarantee that it will not be hooked and it will not be lost when loading.
3. Before the flight, be sure to take a picture of your baggage, if it is stolen or lost, then you can let the staff at the airport show how it looked. So the search will be more effective, and you will not have to try to explain how it looked.
4. In addition, it is worth making on your baggage special cards in Russian and English, where you indicate your name and surname, address and contact numbers. When your baggage is found, it will immediately be visible where and to whom it needs to be delivered.
5. Do not need to take the baggage in the bustle, be sure to check whether you have well attached a baggage ticket to it. Check that it was written by the city to which you are flying.
6. Do not try to lose a detachable piece from the tag of luggage, which you will attach to the ticket. If you lose a luggage, then this coupon will be useful to you.
7. People who often fly on airplanes do not pay attention to baggage tags. From them, you need to be sure to get rid of each flight, because airport employees can send your baggage to another city because of the fact that there will be several labels. It's easy to confuse where you need to transfer your baggage. Moreover, employees have not so much time to look for the one that is designed for this particular voyage.
8. Remember that special attention must be paid to the contents of the suitcase. Do not stuff it to the eyeballs so that it can only be closed with outside help. Fasteners and zippers can easily not withstand, as a result, most of your things will rise separately on the transport tape. And rest assured that no one will return them to you.
9. Do not just ride with the old suitcase. If he has already flown his own, frayed, then do not regret money, buy a new one. Be sure to wrap your luggage in polyethylene, this you can do in every airport. So you will save not only your suitcase, but also things will be tighter.
10. Do not put valuables and cash in your luggage, take everything with you on board the plane. Your hand luggage can reach 5 kilograms, and this is enough to take money, a laptop, a phone and other valuables. In some airlines, you can declare that you have valuable things there when you lose the baggage, then if you lose the uvass, there will be more guarantees that you will be compensated.
11. If you fly to your destination with transplants, then keep in mind that you may need to pick up the baggage and then take it again. Therefore, buy tickets with an interval of this time, in time to do it, and this means at least three hours.
12. If, nevertheless, your suitcases are gone, and you do not see them on the transport tape, do not despair and immediately fall into a void. This happens to many people. Think only of the good, because only 5% of people lose their luggage forever. Do not leave the airport until you have completed all the documents about the loss.
    

You can arrange insurance before the flight, and then you will receive compensation in double size: according to the policy and from the carrier itself. But even in the most unpleasant situation, do not worry, it's not deadly. Go to the Lost & Found department or to the Russian branch of the "Search". It takes about a week to find it, and the maximum search time is 21 days.

How is the luggage stealing?

After you surrender your luggage, it goes to the automated baggage handling system. Therefore, theft can not occur in any way, because these tapes are high no one can get. When the baggage is sorted, it is sent to the loading trolleys, and already the airport staff escort them to the plane.

Each zone, which passes the bag, is equipped with video cameras, and employees know about it. The only time someone touches someone's suitcases is to load directly into the plane. When the aircraft arrives, in the presence of the airline's representative, the luggage is unloaded into the trucks, then they are taken to the airport and unloaded onto the tape.

But if everything is equipped with video surveillance, then who is stealing the luggage? A steal stevedores themselves. When the plane flies, they open their luggage and search for valuables. So they have more time to preplant the plane to remove all evidence. Especially when it comes to overseas flights. And if a thief steals something, when the plane is already at the airport, then it will be caught in two counts.

Video surveillance here is in vain, because an experienced villain is only 6 seconds to accomplish such a crime.

What can I do to prevent your thieves from falling into the bag?

1. In no case, never leave valuables in your suitcases, no jewelry jewelry and electronics. Do not think that if you have an old laptop in your bag, it will not be stolen - believe me, steal.
2. If you still have valuable things, then before the flight make an inventory of these things, so that later you can prove that you have something stolen. Wishes for this will spend a lot of nerves and time.
3. If you want to protect your baggage from intruders, then be sure to pack it in the polyethylene. Thus, you will save it not only from contamination, but also bring inconvenience to thieves. Such a package will cost you 200 rubles, but be prepared for the fact that in some airports, when checked with a radiogen, they can ask to open it.
   

If all the baggage was stolen, then immediately contact the police. In the application, please specify: which flight numbers, how many departed and arrived, it is desirable that you have witnesses who can confirm that you have put in the baggage one or another thing. Attach the baggage receipt to the message. If you managed to insure your thing, then you must provide a certificate stating that a criminal case has been initiated.