Originally Posted by
Father Dick Byrne
For me it’s nothing to do with charges, it’s the totally unreasonable 30-45 minute wait in reclaim for the fekin things to turn up, if they ever do. As an industry we have comprehensively and institutionally forgotten to look after our passengers properly, and then we blame them for their perfectly understandable reaction to our incompetence..
Not to mention that insurance companies will not insure valuables if put in hold baggage: they clearly regard airport baggage handlers as more bent than the average coat hangar.
So it all ends up in hand baggage.
Add on that the insurance companies will argue the toss endlessly if a high value item goes "missing" in the evacuation and subsequent return of the hand luggage back to the customer and you end up with the obvious result. That is unless the aircraft is actually disintegrating around them the passengers will take their hand luggage: end of story.