Have you ever checked in baggage at the airport counter of your favorite airline just to arrive at your destination without it?
We know this is one of the most frustrating feelings when traveling. You just stand in the hallway and wait for your luggage that won’t arrive in time. Moreover, you don’t know where your bag is, which often creates panic and despair among travelers. What’s even worse is that you probably didn’t pack an extra set of clothes in your carry-on luggage, leaving you with the clothes on your body.
The Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection (OACP) creates a monthly Air Travel Consumer Report where it lists the number of mishandled baggage items by U.S. airline carriers. The number for 2019 is a staggering 2.97 million in mishandled bags for U.S. carriers alone. That’s 2.4 bags per 1,000 travelers.
The number of mishandled bags stated above represents lost, damaged, delayed, and pilfered bags, that are reported by or on behalf of the passenger and have been in the airline’s custody for the corresponding domestic nonstop flights.
This number of mishandled bags doesn’t include other major airlines from around the world. However, if you factor in the baggage mishandling rates in Europe (about 7 bags per 1,000 travelers) and Asia (2 bags per 1,000 travelers) from a SITA study in 2018, the overall number becomes mind-blowing.
At S4FE, we want to minimize your headaches of lost, stolen, and delayed baggage and aim to ensure that your luggage finds you the fastest way possible. To achieve that, we have created our S4FE ST!CKERS that have a unique identifier that contains all information about the item’s owner in the S4FE database. If a product is equipped with a S4FE sticker, the finder can scan it with a smartphone, determine the owner and contact them directly via the S4FE app.
