Police: Pair Stole Up To 1,000 bags at Arizona Airport

[HUGE AL]

Get to that baggage claim quick!



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/...stolen_luggage

Deborah Ostreicher, a spokeswoman for the Phoenix airport, said airlines stopped checking passengers' baggage claim tickets there sometime in the last 10 years as a cost-cutting measure.

She said airport officials and airlines are working together to assess security at the airport and are talking about checking passengers' bag tags again.

This was one of the biggest bonehead moves the USA airports did. WN told me one time that on average, people steal 10% of the bags coming in to LAX as they are one of the few airlines that for some strange reason are exempt from tracking your bag...which is why I stopped flying them long ago.

[up and away]

That's a very interesting fact for me as a pax!