What sort of compensation should one expect, or rather claim, if an airline manages to loose your baggage? I appreciate that no compensation is likely to be paid out if the bags arrive a few hours later, but let's for arguments sake say that it's lost for a number of days. Can one demand compensation for the purchase of a new wardrobe? How would it work; would the airline dish out a fixed amount per day the bag is lost or would you have to foot the bill yourself and then claim the cost? Could one claim for trauma too
Me? In 30 years travelling on a large number of airlines, I've only had my bag go lost once and that was on a very short connection in FRA arriving from JNB and continuing to BRU. It arrived on the next flight and was promptly delivered to my office.