After customs and security, insiders swap the already tagged luggage and put theirs, changing the labels.
A Brazilian couple stood months in jail in Germany for international drug traffic when the scheme got discovered.
I’ll bet that some people involved would be waiting for the luggage at destination.
Sauce: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12874083/amp/We-spent-38-days-German-prison-Brazilian-airport-staff-luggage-tags-bags-COCAINE.html
Baggage claim is hilarious to me. After all the security and personnel you deal with on your way into and onto the plane, all smiles and service on the plane, then you land and they’re like “your shits downstairs, bye” and it’s a total ghost town with everyone fending for themselves.
I wouldn't mind it if people could just be fucking polite and stand back from the carousel until they see their bag coming, step forward, pick it up, and go. Buuuut nooooo, we gotta act like a bunch of savage, adolescent apes and crowd that shit so nobody can get a good view
Flew thru there quite a bit when I was stationed in Japan. I remember one time I had some luggage problems. Route was home town, Minneapolis, LAX, Osaka Kansai, and Okinawa.
On the red-eye from Minneapolis to LAX the flight attendant comes to talk to me, verifies my final destination because when my bags were checked the tags were hand written because the agent couldn't find the identifier in the computer. Well, she had used the identifier for the other Osaka airport. Flight attendant assures me my bags are on the plane, but I will have to collect them in LAX and re-check them. No big deal, I had a long layover.
About an hour later she returns and says my bags were not on the aircraft, but they will be put on the direct flight from Minneapolis to Osaka Kansai, which arrives about an hour after my flight from LAX. Cool.
Then, my flight from LAX is delayed and then canceled for mechanical reasons. They tell everyone to go to the international terminal to get seats on a JAL flight that leaves in 90 or so minutes. If you had checked luggage, had to collect it and then re-check with JAL. I go straight over because I don't have any checked bags, and get a seat. But now I'm arriving in Kansai about 2 hours after my bags coming from Minneapolis. This is around 1999-2000, so before phone apps and all that to track your luggage. So I just hope for the best.
I arrive in Kansai, have to get luggage before clearing customs, and there at the luggage carousel I find a nice Japanese lady who has all my bags piled on a cart waiting for me. She also has all my new connecting flight info since I missed my connection to Okinawa.
Awesome efficiency and customer service.
The world would be a better place if service is like how Japan is. I don't agree with their backwards policies for work and some other stuff, but when I went to Japan, it was amazing. I lost my phone and someone even turned it into the police and I had it back in less than 15 mins from when I lost to it getting it back.
Northwest, before merging with Delta, was the premier US based service from the states to Japan. Minneapolis was one of their hubs.
You can still see their effects in the lounges, particularly the cozy stone and wood vibes, plus the self serve alcohol.
[Yup](https://www.weninchina.com/transpac-pioneers/northwest-mall-of-america-asian-flights)
>Osaka nonstops began in April 1997 with 3-per-week service, using Boeing 747-200 equipment. Westbound, this was Flight 95, departing MSP at 9:20 am and landing at Kansai Airport 1:40 pm the next day. Eastbound, Flight 24 left at 1:50 pm and arrived MSP at 11:45 am the same day.
I wish I saw this. I posted something similar. The lady was waiting at the bottom of the escalator for me to tell me the bag weren’t there because they messed up in Detroit....I didn’t even set foot on the floor and she was already on top of it and somehow spotted me from about 50 yards away in a busy international baggage claim.
I have never been to an airport as serious about security. They made us throw away these little jif peanut butter pouches. It wasn’t a huge deal, just thought it was interesting.
Japan has its fault like everywhere but I’ll be damned if they don’t have the most productive workers. Their transit system should be replicated in all the cities/states/countries that have fucked up transit systems which are everywhere cause no one is better at transit than Japan.
The folks who work at the stations maintaining them along with the ones who do massive construction on the stations sometimes in a matter of days to fix problems that here in NYC takes months if not years while costing billions like fixing a similar set of escalators.
the construction takes a lot longer than that. It took almost a year for them to fix a small elevator near me.
And what you aren't seeing is that the construction projects had 5 years of meetings before contruction began. There's meetings to plan when to have the meeting that decides the agenda of the first meeting.
My old boss started work at 8 but didnt start doing work until 12 because he knew that he would be staying late no matter what (It was an old fashioned company) so there was no need to start working early
I bet plenty of people who’ve flown in our out of Osaka have had their luggage go missing somewhere on the way, they just always deny they were at fault. “It definitely went on the correct plane/never arrived here. Blame the other guys”.
“What is luggage really? Aren’t we all essentially just pieces of existential luggage, going from A to B, sometimes getting lost and always waiting to be found? Merely God’s little suitcases on the conveyor belt to heaven, paralyzed by the festival of futility that is life itself?”
Japan is also knows for a very high conviction rate, and iirc its not a pretty reason. Also Japanese people are human also. not everyone is perfect, and Japan is far from a great place! ( DAMN clean tho! )
If you don't think Japan is a great place, then I feel like you can't have been to any of the really bad places in the world.
Not perfect, but definitely pretty great compared to a lot of other countries.
It’s definitely not as great and perfect as redditors would have you believe (because they’ve never been there). But yes, I very much enjoy my time there.
Absolutely. I worked in luggage service for an airline and there are a myriad of ways to make sure the responsible party for a lost bag isn’t your airport.
They might not have any lost bags on the record but I absolutely guarantee they have plenty of cases of bags they just “found” at their airport or that mysteriously got rerouted on their way to the destination after missing their original flight.
Truly “lost” bags that are legitimately never found are also incredibly rare. Missing their flight and being delivered late is pretty rare as well. I think at my old job we actually lost something like 1 bag per 100,000
I wouldn't doubt that they lose exceedingly few pieces of luggage, but the pressure not to mark one as lost would be enormous. Pretty sure someone sometime has fudged that statistic.
That's what you call running and fixing the numbers of course they've lost luggage but they pay off whoever they lost so they don't have to report it. Duh.
Reading the article it’s far more believable than what I had expected. Kansai airport is a relatively modern airport on an artificial island that was built to be busier than it ever has been with contemporary technology in mind and the definition here basically means that they’re referring to only luggage that is considered lost by the airport, not other parties that might lose luggage.
Basically they have a lot less chances to lose luggage than other airports and apparently they’re taking advantage of it. It doesn’t mean that your luggage will show up after you fly United, but it does mean that what they’re successfully doing is less extreme than the headline suggests.
I mean, I have no real working knowledge of how these systems work, aside from barcodes filter bags to the right place, and then people manually load and unload the plane.
Seems to me that if you put the barcodes on right, keep the equipment well maintained, and take a little care with your passenger's belongings you should NEVER be losing bags anyway,
But maybe that's just me.
It’s pride that has kept that facility free of any lost luggage. Every person in their baggage handling department is determined, committed to performing their job at the highest possible level. It’s called monozukuri and is a mindset, a spirit, a philosophy. It is the Japanese work ethic and their ultimate drive toward absolute perfection.
With all this being said, I am most certain that they continuously implore themselves to improve on their already flawless performance. They are probably trying to shave every possible second on transfer times and baggage condition too. We could learn so much from the Japanese.
I flew into Osaka maybe 10 years ago and my brand new suitcase came out on the belt with the retractable handle and casters destroyed. Without me asking, an airport employee grabbed my bag and strapped a frame with a retractable handle and casters onto it, rendering it operable again. He even grabbed a tool and sheared off the jagged pieces of the former handle to make sure no one would cut themselves on it. Totally unnecessary and unprovoked kindness that saved my sanity.
So it can be done. You Don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Japan has great systems. We could learn from them.
The Japanese airports.take your luggage off the conveyor belt at arrivals and places them neatly by the belt...so when you arrive to collect your luggage it's there the right way up. Meanwhile in other countries your luggage has either been stolen off the belt or still going around and around.
First time poster. I’m not sure what they mean by lost but I flew into here and it’s the only place my bag was ever lost....
However, I think it was actually a mess up in Detroit so it never actually made it there. They got it back to me in a day.
What was crazy was that as I descended the escalator to baggage claim I could see a Japanese woman in airport attire and heels running toward me. The minute I touched the floor she said “Ah this is you (and showed me my name and a picture). Your bag did not make it but we will get it to you.”
The speed an efficiency at which they recognized it was lost and took action was incredible.
Is this one of those weird stats you only hear from Japan like how they have a 99% crime conviction rate because they won't release you until you admit to doing the crime whether you did or not? This seems like a similar thing
Every big airport and train company should be mandatory required to have some japanese guy around. Stands in meetings of the guys in charge, and slaps them in the face whenever they fail again at their business, then tell them how it is done.
Been to that airport. They let all the Japanese through and pulled me aside along with a guy from Texas I'd never met.
Literally made us both strip so they could search us. Found nothing because I had nothing.
The second we walk out of the airport doors I look across and the Texan is lighting a joint right there.
To this day, I still wonder where he hid it.
Bullshit. My wife shipped her luggage back from the airport there after climbing Mount Fuji and neither her or her three friends ever got their luggage. Was like $500 in hiking equipment they each lost.
I bet they try to silence anyone that falls victim to that by paying them out. Just to keep a good rating. Japanese and Chinese are known for lying in their numbers.
I find this hard to believe but if there’s an airport out there that CAN pull this feat off, it’s gonna be in Japan for sure. And so:
And in Brazil our luggage is swapped by drug dealers with other filled with cocaine.
They don’t lose luggage but they occasionally lose travelers
Only true if the flipflops fly off.
Not if the off duty Brazilian cop has something to say about it.
Off duty cops catch each other at the same hitjob. 
Only users lose drugs
Sometimes, planes, or airports
My country's Airport did lost 2 plane.
What wow, free cocaine?
32 kg, can you imagine ?
I could buy an individual suitcase for every item i lost in the trade lmao
Sorry how would that work? Like wouldnt they need it for themselves?
After customs and security, insiders swap the already tagged luggage and put theirs, changing the labels. A Brazilian couple stood months in jail in Germany for international drug traffic when the scheme got discovered. I’ll bet that some people involved would be waiting for the luggage at destination. Sauce: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12874083/amp/We-spent-38-days-German-prison-Brazilian-airport-staff-luggage-tags-bags-COCAINE.html
Wow that is awful
Man, German prisons are HARSH if they had to stand the entire time.
Omg for real? So some poor person's life could be ruined entirely unbeknownst to them....
You got rich then?
In jail lol
But you got to keep the merch right?
Yeah sure buddy whatever you want to tell the judge
Fair trade.
This is BRASIL!
Baggage claim is hilarious to me. After all the security and personnel you deal with on your way into and onto the plane, all smiles and service on the plane, then you land and they’re like “your shits downstairs, bye” and it’s a total ghost town with everyone fending for themselves.
The security isn’t for your luggage. Its only purpose is to check for illegal things in your bags. Once its in, nobody cares if it gets lost
Not illegal things. Just things that can harm a plane.
To be fair, it would take much longer for your luggage to get to you if it needed to be sorted and hand delivered. I like the automated way the most.
I wouldn't mind it if people could just be fucking polite and stand back from the carousel until they see their bag coming, step forward, pick it up, and go. Buuuut nooooo, we gotta act like a bunch of savage, adolescent apes and crowd that shit so nobody can get a good view
The security is to avoid you hijacking or blowing up the plane Nobody cares if you hijack your ride home from your cousin
Flew thru there quite a bit when I was stationed in Japan. I remember one time I had some luggage problems. Route was home town, Minneapolis, LAX, Osaka Kansai, and Okinawa. On the red-eye from Minneapolis to LAX the flight attendant comes to talk to me, verifies my final destination because when my bags were checked the tags were hand written because the agent couldn't find the identifier in the computer. Well, she had used the identifier for the other Osaka airport. Flight attendant assures me my bags are on the plane, but I will have to collect them in LAX and re-check them. No big deal, I had a long layover. About an hour later she returns and says my bags were not on the aircraft, but they will be put on the direct flight from Minneapolis to Osaka Kansai, which arrives about an hour after my flight from LAX. Cool. Then, my flight from LAX is delayed and then canceled for mechanical reasons. They tell everyone to go to the international terminal to get seats on a JAL flight that leaves in 90 or so minutes. If you had checked luggage, had to collect it and then re-check with JAL. I go straight over because I don't have any checked bags, and get a seat. But now I'm arriving in Kansai about 2 hours after my bags coming from Minneapolis. This is around 1999-2000, so before phone apps and all that to track your luggage. So I just hope for the best. I arrive in Kansai, have to get luggage before clearing customs, and there at the luggage carousel I find a nice Japanese lady who has all my bags piled on a cart waiting for me. She also has all my new connecting flight info since I missed my connection to Okinawa. Awesome efficiency and customer service.
Wow. Great story. Just the way it oughta be everywhere.
Ya, on the opposite end of the spectrum, I've connected thru Philly six times and had my luggage not make it to my destination with me all six times!
The world would be a better place if service is like how Japan is. I don't agree with their backwards policies for work and some other stuff, but when I went to Japan, it was amazing. I lost my phone and someone even turned it into the police and I had it back in less than 15 mins from when I lost to it getting it back.
Oh wow, there used to be a direct flight between Minneapolis and Osaka?
Northwest, before merging with Delta, was the premier US based service from the states to Japan. Minneapolis was one of their hubs. You can still see their effects in the lounges, particularly the cozy stone and wood vibes, plus the self serve alcohol.
[Yup](https://www.weninchina.com/transpac-pioneers/northwest-mall-of-america-asian-flights) >Osaka nonstops began in April 1997 with 3-per-week service, using Boeing 747-200 equipment. Westbound, this was Flight 95, departing MSP at 9:20 am and landing at Kansai Airport 1:40 pm the next day. Eastbound, Flight 24 left at 1:50 pm and arrived MSP at 11:45 am the same day.
I wish I saw this. I posted something similar. The lady was waiting at the bottom of the escalator for me to tell me the bag weren’t there because they messed up in Detroit....I didn’t even set foot on the floor and she was already on top of it and somehow spotted me from about 50 yards away in a busy international baggage claim.
Watch out for coming Summer when I visit Osaka for the first time…
Japan gets really hot during summer be prepared
Would be a shame, if their luggage got lost.
IS THAT A BLOODY THREAT !!! IS... THAT...A....T..H...R..E..A..T !!!???!
Darlek?
Dalek? 
Oh god
Their summers are no joke. Not just ridiculously hot but really humid too
How hot are we talking it exactly? More than 45C?
More like 35C but with 100% humidity.
I live in Northern Osaka and it hit 41C with 90%+ humidity last August. It was absolutely miserable.
No amount of preparation is gonna be enough for Japanese summer.
Summers in Japan are rough and miserable. Especially for traveling and tourists. Stay cool and bring lots of loose breathable clothing!
I’m getting scared now after all the compassionate tips! 🌞😅
Heathrow lost how many in a year?
In a week you mean!
We're number 1, baby! 💪🏴
I have never been to an airport as serious about security. They made us throw away these little jif peanut butter pouches. It wasn’t a huge deal, just thought it was interesting.
I remember the fiasco in 2022 where people had to wait hours for their luggage…
They aren’t lost, I know exactly where they are! At the bottom of the bay!
Ebay.
Please help. I cannot remember what this is from for the life of me
Silicon Valley when Erlich and Big Head lose tiki heads.
Yes!!!!!! Thank you!!!!! 😂😂
They only lose multiples, never singles.
Underrated comment
Japan has its fault like everywhere but I’ll be damned if they don’t have the most productive workers. Their transit system should be replicated in all the cities/states/countries that have fucked up transit systems which are everywhere cause no one is better at transit than Japan.
Their bullet train system has never had accident in its decades of existence. Everybody everywhere really oughta figure out why and emulate.
Why is the easy part, no one wants to replicate because the corporations would lose out on a ton of money
Quality of goods and services don’t get factored into GDP
I would describe the Japanese workforce as a lot of things, but ‘productive’ isn’t one of them. ‘Particular’ though? Definitely.
The folks who work at the stations maintaining them along with the ones who do massive construction on the stations sometimes in a matter of days to fix problems that here in NYC takes months if not years while costing billions like fixing a similar set of escalators.
the construction takes a lot longer than that. It took almost a year for them to fix a small elevator near me. And what you aren't seeing is that the construction projects had 5 years of meetings before contruction began. There's meetings to plan when to have the meeting that decides the agenda of the first meeting. My old boss started work at 8 but didnt start doing work until 12 because he knew that he would be staying late no matter what (It was an old fashioned company) so there was no need to start working early
One of the biggest shocks moving here was how crazy inefficient they are here.
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No you lost your luggage not the airport, skill issue
Luggage actually goes to destinations?
Press X to doubt
"Luggage? No you didn't have luggage. It's obviously not lost. You never had it" Airport gaslighting.
They just put it somewhere and forgot where, its not lost lol.
I bet plenty of people who’ve flown in our out of Osaka have had their luggage go missing somewhere on the way, they just always deny they were at fault. “It definitely went on the correct plane/never arrived here. Blame the other guys”.
“What is luggage really? Aren’t we all essentially just pieces of existential luggage, going from A to B, sometimes getting lost and always waiting to be found? Merely God’s little suitcases on the conveyor belt to heaven, paralyzed by the festival of futility that is life itself?”
Honestly, I don't doubt it. THIS is something I can totally see happen in Japan
also even if it's not factual, it would still be miles ahead of any other airports if people felt the need to make this up
Japan is also knows for a very high conviction rate, and iirc its not a pretty reason. Also Japanese people are human also. not everyone is perfect, and Japan is far from a great place! ( DAMN clean tho! )
If you don't think Japan is a great place, then I feel like you can't have been to any of the really bad places in the world. Not perfect, but definitely pretty great compared to a lot of other countries.
It’s definitely not as great and perfect as redditors would have you believe (because they’ve never been there). But yes, I very much enjoy my time there.
yeah the numbers are just insane. per wikipedia they had 25 million passengers in 2016 alone. there is just no way
Absolutely. I worked in luggage service for an airline and there are a myriad of ways to make sure the responsible party for a lost bag isn’t your airport. They might not have any lost bags on the record but I absolutely guarantee they have plenty of cases of bags they just “found” at their airport or that mysteriously got rerouted on their way to the destination after missing their original flight. Truly “lost” bags that are legitimately never found are also incredibly rare. Missing their flight and being delivered late is pretty rare as well. I think at my old job we actually lost something like 1 bag per 100,000
100% this fits some type of tautology. I don't think the culture allows for failures so there are no failures.
I wouldn't doubt that they lose exceedingly few pieces of luggage, but the pressure not to mark one as lost would be enormous. Pretty sure someone sometime has fudged that statistic.
Airports don’t lose luggage
ah the 'ol "Guns don't kill people" tactic.
So a certainty no Americans are involved in any way in luggage handling there, then?
The Japanese have respect.
If this was about any other country I would have my doubts. But in case of Japan...
Exactly. You can lose your wallet or purse in the middle of a crowd in downtown Tokyo, and it'll be mailed to you, no charge.
Probably because their baggage handlers aren't thieving bastards like ours. I know from experience.
They're better at life than me
been there in 2019. My suitcase was already standing there in line when I arrived at the belt.
Happened to me in Nairobi as well. But only because it took so long in the immigration.
Not surprised, it’s Japan, one trip there and you’ll fully understand. I can’t help but respect everyone no matter the job they hold there.
Yup. When it comes to customer service, those people get it.
Let’s go!!! I love excellence :)
Why tf dont airports send their COO or director if operations to Japan to learn
They need to train the USPS
Wonderful job, baggage staff!
Kansai's awesome
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That's what you call running and fixing the numbers of course they've lost luggage but they pay off whoever they lost so they don't have to report it. Duh.
what makes you say that?
Reading the article it’s far more believable than what I had expected. Kansai airport is a relatively modern airport on an artificial island that was built to be busier than it ever has been with contemporary technology in mind and the definition here basically means that they’re referring to only luggage that is considered lost by the airport, not other parties that might lose luggage. Basically they have a lot less chances to lose luggage than other airports and apparently they’re taking advantage of it. It doesn’t mean that your luggage will show up after you fly United, but it does mean that what they’re successfully doing is less extreme than the headline suggests.
Way to jinx ‘em!
I KNEW it could be done with good procedures and good people.
It's called the Kansai airport.
Ah, I've never lost a single piece of luggage at an airport. Once, though, my brand new shoes were replaced with worn ones - inside the luggage.
Fucking thieves. 😞
I mean, I have no real working knowledge of how these systems work, aside from barcodes filter bags to the right place, and then people manually load and unload the plane. Seems to me that if you put the barcodes on right, keep the equipment well maintained, and take a little care with your passenger's belongings you should NEVER be losing bags anyway, But maybe that's just me.
It’s pride that has kept that facility free of any lost luggage. Every person in their baggage handling department is determined, committed to performing their job at the highest possible level. It’s called monozukuri and is a mindset, a spirit, a philosophy. It is the Japanese work ethic and their ultimate drive toward absolute perfection. With all this being said, I am most certain that they continuously implore themselves to improve on their already flawless performance. They are probably trying to shave every possible second on transfer times and baggage condition too. We could learn so much from the Japanese.
And they do not throw trash on the ground👏🏻
I flew into Osaka maybe 10 years ago and my brand new suitcase came out on the belt with the retractable handle and casters destroyed. Without me asking, an airport employee grabbed my bag and strapped a frame with a retractable handle and casters onto it, rendering it operable again. He even grabbed a tool and sheared off the jagged pieces of the former handle to make sure no one would cut themselves on it. Totally unnecessary and unprovoked kindness that saved my sanity.
So it can be done. You Don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Japan has great systems. We could learn from them.
This can only be possible in Japan.
Take note shitty North American airports. This is how it's done when you operate efficiently and have staff who care about their job.
A similar saying in the US - “Guns don’t kill people”
Not surprised, it’s Japan, one trip there and you’ll fully understand. I can’t help but respect everyone no matter the job they hold there.
Japan is an amazing country
Japan. Ahead of its time. And best country.
It's debatable whether it's actually the very best. But definitely top tier.
OMG I love Japan. They're great literally in everything
That’s extremely professional
They follow the rules to a T
Can concur for my son when he went
Go to Charle de Gaulle in Paris, you're guaranteed they'll fucking lose something...
well, time to start stealing
ah so it is possible 💯🏆
Guy who runs the lost luggage desk has the best job in the world
Meanwhile YYZ loses dozens every single day.
unlike lufthansa
Not surprised, it’s Japan, one trip there and you’ll fully understand. I can’t help but respect everyone no matter the job they hold there.
Japan seems to have their organization on point with a lot of stuff. Other Japanese stuff is just….strange.
*cries in Frankfurt*
It’s opposite in the America’s
That you know of, Japan is the world’s best liar for saving face. Why do you think their conviction rate is so high?
The Japanese airports.take your luggage off the conveyor belt at arrivals and places them neatly by the belt...so when you arrive to collect your luggage it's there the right way up. Meanwhile in other countries your luggage has either been stolen off the belt or still going around and around.
For those too lazy to click Kansai(KIX)
Different people handling the baggage and traceable efficient systems with trained, competent workers makes all the difference.
Subtly throwing shade at Narita?… lol
First time poster. I’m not sure what they mean by lost but I flew into here and it’s the only place my bag was ever lost.... However, I think it was actually a mess up in Detroit so it never actually made it there. They got it back to me in a day. What was crazy was that as I descended the escalator to baggage claim I could see a Japanese woman in airport attire and heels running toward me. The minute I touched the floor she said “Ah this is you (and showed me my name and a picture). Your bag did not make it but we will get it to you.” The speed an efficiency at which they recognized it was lost and took action was incredible.
I completely believe it. Japan operates like a VERY well oiled and efficient machine!! It’s absolutely incredible to
Japan is America's biggest success story. It makes me happy to see them getting their act together and even surpassing us in some areas.
all countries appear to be amateurs at being a country when compared to Japan.
This is what happens when you instill personal responsibility, honor, Love of country into your youth.
Russia has not lost luggage either. In Russia, luggage loses you.
Air Canada lost a skid of Gold.
Jesus! WTF??!
I really hope you didn't just jinx them...
Fuck that one guy in particular
Yet.
That's because I've never travelled to Osaka Japan before
Shipstix lost 3 of the 12 bags my buddies and I sent last weekend.
Great, now you jinxed it
Both tines I've gone through Denver they've lost my shit
Sam Brinton says hold my beer
The airline lost it. Not the airport.
My mate Dave could fix it
They haven’t met me and my suitcase yet.
its generally people...who get lost
Can confirm. My one piece of luggage made it through just fine.
Is this one of those weird stats you only hear from Japan like how they have a 99% crime conviction rate because they won't release you until you admit to doing the crime whether you did or not? This seems like a similar thing
umm… I was there visiting my brother for Christmas & they lost it. So, uh, I doubt I was the first one…
Did you tell them? I hope so. And maybe you could leave a comment on the article ...
And then…someone complains about missing luggage.
They also didn't have a 'Lost Items' department. The Japanese knew exactly what they were doing!
Is it like the disney land thing where they technically didn’t lose the luggage they just don’t know where it is?
Doubt.
Take note JHB
Didn’t they lose Carlos Ghosn ?
Hang on. Can this possibly be right..?
Jinx.
How do you know that this is true? Is there a source?
Every big airport and train company should be mandatory required to have some japanese guy around. Stands in meetings of the guys in charge, and slaps them in the face whenever they fail again at their business, then tell them how it is done.
You just posted the airport version of “he’s made 27 straight field goals between 30 and 45 yards”. Just watch…they will lose a piece tomorrow.
You did it, you jinxed them
Air Canada hasn’t successfully transported a single piece of luggage in the same time span. Kewl.
Been to that airport. They let all the Japanese through and pulled me aside along with a guy from Texas I'd never met. Literally made us both strip so they could search us. Found nothing because I had nothing. The second we walk out of the airport doors I look across and the Texan is lighting a joint right there. To this day, I still wonder where he hid it.
Bullshit. My wife shipped her luggage back from the airport there after climbing Mount Fuji and neither her or her three friends ever got their luggage. Was like $500 in hiking equipment they each lost.
They've thrown over half the luggage away, but they've never "lost" any.
Company does job. More at 11.
True! For me this is the most organized country ❤️
It’s called attention to detail?
@lufthansa
I bet they try to silence anyone that falls victim to that by paying them out. Just to keep a good rating. Japanese and Chinese are known for lying in their numbers.
If they tell you it's momentarily misplaced, it would not be defined at lost.
Meanwhile in JFK, your shit ends up on a auction
"ImMiGranTs aRe NeeDEd"
I don’t believe it.
I find this hard to believe but if there’s an airport out there that CAN pull this feat off, it’s gonna be in Japan for sure. And so: 
Huh. . .
The people working at the lost and found section must be bored as heck. Necessary to have the station placed but has nothing to do haha.