# How does luggage handling work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-luggage-handling-work/330431 "2005-11-10T17:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-luggage-handling-work/330431/21 "2005-11-11T17:12:19Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > This is what happened in the Pan Am Lokerbie bomb incident . Since then the “matching luggage to passengers policy” has been vigorously pursued in the UK. I have sat on a plane while luggage from a no-show passenger has been off-loaded. Yup. Hence the page of “Last call for passenger xxx. If you do not report to the gate immediately your baggage will be unloaded and the flight will depart without you”. US domestic airlines are still very sloppy about security, despite all the propaganda. Bags and passengers should ALWAYS be on the same flight if the rules are being followed. Suicide bombings might seem commonplace nowadays, but they are still much less of a threat than ‘traditional’ bombings. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-luggage-handling-work/330431/22 "2005-11-11T17:41:48Z")
One Christmas several years ago I flew into Regina to visit my family, and my bag wasn’t there. I reported it and gave the address where I’d be - in Weyburn, 70 miles away. They called the next morning and sent it down in a cab! We gave the driver some of my sister’s homemade chocolates for strength on the drive back. I always follow **Duckster** ’s advice about keeping a few necessities in my carry-on. Another trick is to put in a large freezer bag or two to dump your pockets into before reaching the metal detector. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-luggage-handling-work/330431.md?page=1)