Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by insane_dreamer on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:02PM
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This.
In some places you used to be able to check your bags in advance. In Switzerland you could even check your bags at your local train station the day before so that you could just go to your flight and breeze through the airport.
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by veeti on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:37AM
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Think you can still do that in Hong Kong.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:43AM
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I used that on my last trip to HK (10 years ago?), but we couldn’t check a musical instrument there. https://www.tripsavvy.com/list-of-airlines-offering-in-town-...
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by alex989 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:50AM
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That doesn't really solve the problem of your bag not arriving at destination. So far my ratio is 3 out of 14 that had bagage problems when I didn't bring them in with me as carry on.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by jajko on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:18AM
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If you fly multiple hops, there is no way to guarantee this, service quality varies wildly ie across Europe.
Some airports are known to be 'black holes' for luggage, from dealings with Swissport who handles lost&found everywhere, they mentioned that Fiumicino airport near Rome didn't have stellar reputation to say politely, and Barcelona wasn't that great neither. Had luggage lost on both in rather annoying way - both of them didn't have a clue where it was for more than a week, started saying goodbye to all rather costly equipment like paraglider set in it.
But I've seen stuff get lost in places like Vienna multiple times, so one can't draw any simple conclusions. I see it as a massive room for improvement and automation via 'AI', but that should have been done a decade ago, ie automated barcode scanning isn't novel tech.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by ghaff on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:03AM
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It does seem to have improved in general. (From a small sample size as I don't check luggage unless I have to.) United's baggage tracking in their app seems pretty reliable and I toss in an AirTag as a backup which also works well.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by insane_dreamer on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:47AM
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That has definitely improved. My bags used to get lost (well, more delayed than lost) nearly every time I connected through Paris CDG. Now it's been a long time since that has happened.