28
Dec
2006
Posted by: Mark Ashley
See your bag in this dumpster, located behind a Houston pet store? If so, contact Continental Airlines.
The dumpster was filled with 68 bags, most of which were headed to international destinations. Fantastic.
Interestingly, one woman whose bag was found in the dumpster didn’t even fly to, from, or through Houston. At least she got her stuff back, and didn’t have to buy it again from the Unclaimed Baggage Center…
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December 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
I read on an airline site that a lot of those bags had transfer tags on them so they should not have even been able to remove them from the security area apparently those bags are handled differently and are probably loaded in some order let alone the airport property. I will not be surprised one bit when the FBI bust up some huge very organized theft ring. There is no way one person could do this alone. And this way at least there watching each other to make sure there not getting ripped off by their own partners. But if one person pulled this off god only knows what else he could do. If that turns out to be the case which is doubtful, I wouldn’t go near a plane to meet the Virgin Mary herself!!!
May 10th, 2009 at 9:37 am
The 5 men arrested for the crime did not work for Continental Airlines, they worked for a contract service by the name of Menzies. The baggage found in the dumpster all had interline ( international arrival baggage that transfers to another carrier ) tags, for instance a plane comes in from Europe like KLM or EK and the passengers are continuing on through IAH on a Continental flight. The bags were collected by the contract workers over time as the bags were from several different airlines.
Link to story:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-02-lost-luggage_x.htm