Lost Baggage Woes
Posted on October 5, 2009 by Ching under Travel.
I shouldn’t have joked about losing our carry on luggage because I think ended up jinxing us. Mom’s check-in luggage (the one and only one we checked in) actually ended up getting lost. We checked the bag in Wichita and it was supposed to be checked in straight to Cebu.
When we arrived in San Francisco, we found out that the overhead luggage bins of the Cathay Pacific planes going to and from Hong Kong, San Francisco and Cebu are smaller than regular overhead bins. The Cathay Pacific rep at the SFO airport made us check in our carry on bags. This made us a bit uncomfortable because we were worried that the airline might lose them. Our carry ons have all of our clothes and necessities, without which our trip would be completely messed up.
Anyway, our carry ons actually arrived in Cebu without any problems. What ended up getting lost was mom’s bag that was checked in Wichita. Cathay Pacific has been fantastic during this whole trip so we are blaming the fiasco on United. After all, United breaks guitars. LOL.
We were bummed at first because most of mom’s pasalubongs were in that bag. However, we found out yesterday that the airline found the lost luggage and are shipping it Tito Cyrus’ address in Dumaguete per mom’s request. It ended up working out better, actually.
If mom’s enormous check in luggage hadn’t been lost we would’ve had to lug it with us on our trip from Cebu to Bohol and then from Bohol to Negros. As it was, our carry on bags barely fit in the trunk of the taxi cab that took us from the Mactan airport in Cebu to the pier. If we would have had mom’s bag, we would have been really cramped in the cab and also in Tita Neneng’s car on the trip to Tanjay from the Dumaguete pier.
The airline’s losing that bag turned out to be a blessing in disguise. LOL.
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