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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 10:06
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Would you hand this in or keep it?

right - annoyed SLF here. Was on the final leg of a long journey on friday the 29th of Sept . I was with Aer Arann on board flight 217 to sligo from Dublin intending to visit a friend in hospital there. I was seated on the ATR beside a fairly drunk Lady who was keen to talk. I was knackered and didn't want to engage in converstation so I took my Playstation Portable out and listened to some music. The drunk lady continued to chatter to me, despite the fact that I had headphones in. As we started our descent, a member of CC asked if I would turn that off for landing. I did this in a bit of a fluster whilst the drunko continued to tell me about her life. When we landed I just wanted to get away from this person and when she moved towards the front of the aircraft to get a bag - I made a hasty escape out down the back and off the aircraft. It was literally 15 minutes later, whilst sitting in a cab I realised I left my PSP in the pocket of seat 4a. I immediately turned back to the Airport (as the ATR took off for Dubiln again).
At the check in desk in Sligo I asked whether the PSP had been handed in. After a brief search it was a negative response. The lady was helpful and advised me to ring Dublin as someone will find it in the pocket and hand it in.
I rang dublin and alas - no luck.
Now - here's the question. The Air Hostess on the flight down - does she give the aircraft a bit of a clean for the 15 mins it is sitting on the tarmac in Sligo or are there cleaners? I would assume as professional cabin crew members that if they did find an valuable item they would had it in to lost & found?
Am I naive?
Next - as pax if you found a Camera, or MP3 player or PSP in a pocket at your seat, would you hand it in? Many moons ago when I was a student and worked in EI cleaning planes for summers, anytime we found anything valuable in the pockets we were delighted, why? Because it meant we had the joy of nearly an hour round trip to Lost & found and no work! It was never even a consideration to pocket anything.
Have times changed so much that people can be so dishonest?
Am I just naive? - Granted - my bad for leaving the thing behind me, but it has happened to us all. The thing that really annoys me is that I had a gb memory card in the PSP with loads of Photo's of myself and my mate I was visiting, on holidays together in '95. We had lost them and this was my get well gift.
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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 10:36
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Well if I found it my first thoughts would be is there a good chance that the owner can be reunited with item.
In your case every chance so I would definately hand it over but I doubt if a teenage kid or someone who wishes a PSP badly enough would if they found it.
Could have been any number of people who found and kept it, disembarking PAX, cleaner,FA or next flights PAX.
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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 14:02
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I've done this twice, and though it wasn't as much as irreplacable as a PSP. I've lost a pack of CDs on one flight, and then a month later, a CD player. In neither case did I get them returned, but because AerArann is much smaller than Untied or American, you'll have better luck.

But now, I put address labels on things that I might slip into a seat pocket, and always try to remember to check the area around me for personal belongings.

good luck.
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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 15:27
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My son left his PSP in the seat pocket of an Air France flight from HKG to CDG last February. No chance of getting that back. Aircraft cleaners perks!
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I've done this twice - once with a mobile phone and once with a 'bum bag' containing inter alia my credit cards. In both cases they were safely returned to me, for which I was duly and humbly grateful.

Not all aircraft cleaners suffer from sticky fingers!
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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 16:53
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The less kind amongst us might say "karma" - if you had engaged the lady in conversation (the poor thing clearly had issues) - you would never have lost your PSP.
Sanctimonious crap, really though - I usually don't talk or listen much either....
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As a crew member, finding an item on board once all pax have disembarked is crucial for security reasons. It would be a major breach of security for a crew member not to hand it in but keep it with them on the return leg as it could be anything disquised as a PSP.
The reason SLF are reminded to remember to take all their personal belongings is not for their own convenience but to decrease incidents of finding unclaimed suspicious items on board, be it in flight or on the ground.Therefore I very much doubt it would have crossed that cm's mind to keep it, cant speak for cleaners but airport staff are so busy that sometimes lost items get mislaid for genuine reasons.
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Lost property on airlines seems to be a big black hole, for a bunch of reasons. It's far more likely just lost in the vast amounts of items people leave behind them every day, than be down to dishonesty. I once tried to look through 3 huge boxes of mobiles left at GVA for my own, without success. I've lost a ton of stuff over the last few years, among which 3 mobile phones (1 returned), 1 ipod (not returned), 1 carton duty free cigarettes (returned, bizarely), a jacket (not returned), keys to a hire car (not returned, and amazingly expensive to replace), and 1 passport (returned, thankfully).

The moment my attention switches from my own world, to trying to disembark and get sorted for the next leg, especially on a routine friday flight home after a ****ty day at work, seems to be a killer for me, and I'd forget anything.

If you've tried the Lost Property at Sligo, I'd try the one at Dublin assuming the aircraft went back there. I've had more success there than any other, although, I have to say statistics are not in your favour. They're down in the arrivals hall, and the number's on the Dublin Airport website (under Contact Us).

Good luck.
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