Independence claims to be returning last luggage by FedEx. This travelr found evidence to contrary when recovering luggage.
Bogus Independence Air Luggage Return claims ...
6 January - Independence telephone agents are saying that missing luggage will be FedEx'd to them. I found this NOT TRUE at Dulles yesterday (Friday, 6 Jan). My experience tells me that luggage will probably be thrown out.
After FlyI misplaced five pieces of our luggage on Thursday (shutdown day) I returned to Dulles yesterday to get it. I found a locked baggage office, no one available at FLYI terminals or check-in counters, and piles of luggage in front of the United Airlines baggage office. Other airline baggage personnel told me they had collectively stacked this luggage when Independence people left their jobs, and piles of unattended luggage, Thursday evening.
Risking arrest, I eventually got one of the FlyI shutdown staff from a back office to let me into their luggage room. I found a pile of FedEx forms on the desk, but the FLYI employee told me the baggage people worked only a couple hours in the morning, shipped (only) SEVEN pieces by FedEx, and would not ship more. There were perhaps 20 more pieces in the room (including a few of mine). He said these would be "returned to headquarters."
I searched thru the piles at United without finding mine but saw pieces with Independence tags.
Bottom line is that peoples' luggage stranded at Dulles will probably go to the dump (certainly after being scavenged) unless owners go there and get it. This could be true at other FlyI destinations as well.
BTW, the FlyI employee who FedEx'd the seven bags said he kept no receipts, so for practical purposes there are no tracking numbers and who knows if there are actual shipments ... Also, FlyI's hardcopies of luggage claims were collected alongside other things headed for the dumpster.
Thought everyone would want to know ...
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