Another Ground incident at Pearson Airport
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Personal Responsibility
There is a provision to increase their liability when checking in. It's called (as I recall)"Excess Valuation" and covers the difference of what the carrier's liability is and what "you" say the value of "your" item is.
2 issues
1) getting someone at the airline who knows what to do in this case and
2) proving the value to the airline's insurers.
Any sensible person will have taken personal responsibility seriously and will have taken out their own all risks / home insurance policy for their valuables.
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International (and all intra-EU) flights are protected by the Montreal Convention 1999 (MC99) which limits an airline's liability for loss or damage to about SDR1300 per passenger. This is the extent of airline liability, unless you can prove that they did so intentionally.
While, in theory, you can get Excess Valuation - find me an airline employee that has any idea what you are talking about, I'll give you a free beer.
While, in theory, you can get Excess Valuation - find me an airline employee that has any idea what you are talking about, I'll give you a free beer.
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I think what MarcK was getting at was that normally, non evac situations, he'd prefer to have the airlines cover valuables in the hold more than they do in the cabin in case of loss/damage etc. The airlines do generally tell us to take valuables as carry on.
He didn't say he wanted his camera etc as carry on so that he could evac with it.
He didn't say he wanted his camera etc as carry on so that he could evac with it.
It is this lack of a joined-up approach that leads pax to distrust the whole industry/system and thence to grab their own stuff. As another example of this, Trump recently banned some devices (laptops, but also cameras) from cabin baggage while at the same time the FAA appears to have been working on (and still is I think) proposals to ban the same devices from checked baggage (and cargo too?). How does a camera crew actually fly then? Who in the industry is actually looking at the whole picture and standing up and saying "this doesn't work"?
I rely on medication to stay alive these days, and it won't fit in pockets (well, actually I could fit a weeks worth of pills in a large coat pocket, but I am not allowed to because various rules (non-joined up approach again) in numerous places require me to carry medication "in original packaging" - which is too big). I would happily hand over / check-in / leave my meds if I believed and trusted that the industry/system would replace them if I don't get them back at the end of the journey, but I don't (and with reason). Until that changes, my meds are in a bag that I can easily and quickly grab on evac (which will be bigger that it might be because it has to have other stuff that I could leave behind, because... only one bag allowed, sigh).
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So what you're really saying is that your camera and precious phone is worth dying for