Well, there’s good news and bad news.. we made it to Montreal, but just barely. I opted to “gate check” (aka. give control of my luggage to the baggage monkeys at United) my carry-on bag as I didn’t want to sit in seat 4F and have my luggage stowed above seat 30A. After further review of the situation, I obviously made the wrong decision.
At the time that I handed over my bag, they told me it was being checked all the way to Montreal — YUL airport. When I got to LAX, the flight staff then was saying that I would find my bag at the baggage claim. They even told me this after I de-planed and talked to the woman at the front counter for United. After going down to the baggage area and not finding my bag, I went to the baggage claim desk and she said that the bag is _likely_ to be sent all the way to Montreal, though they mis-wrote the airport code as UYL not YUL. Great.
This was the time of the last post — luggage debacle.
Our plane was 30 minutes late getting into LAX and after the debacle we were already running late. Our plane was set to depart at 11pm and it was about 10:10 at this point. We wait about 10 minutes for a shuttle and finally get to terminal 2 at about 10:25 and head straight to security. The line was terribly long and the woman let us take the elevator up to the top level of security to short cut everyone.
When we got up there, though, the TSA person insisted that Scott didn’t have a real ticket — but rather a confirmation number. He said we needed to go back down to the desk and get a real ticket. We objected. He called over a supervisor. Supervisor proved him wrong. We went through security. Bam!
We’re on the plane, we both slept very little and when we got to Montreal — surprise surprise — no bag. They still aren’t quite sure where it is as of this writing.. so, we’ll see if it makes it at all. I bought some clothes at the Gap ($150 for a simple cotton dress shirt, two undershirts and 2 pairs of boxers). I grabbed some simple toiletries and all told this lost bag has already cost me about $175. Fortunately, our friends at Air Canada / United are willing to give me a whopping $50/day for 2 days. That should help, but still.
We just got into our rooms and are looking forward to catching some shut-eye. We’re still in very good spirits and no lost luggage is going to get in our way!
