{"id":8384,"date":"2024-06-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2024-06-02T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:17:39","slug":"delta-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/delta-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"DELTA BAGGAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have long suspected that Delta is the one airline whose motto is \u201cIf man was meant to fly he would have been born with wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the day when meals instead of pretzels were standard fare in domestic travel, Delta had the best airline food in my opinion. They were my airline of preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, that changed. It was my experience that more Delta flights were late or cancelled than any other airline I flew.\u00a0\u00a0In 1987 one of my suitcases was stolen at the Delta LaGuardia terminal; NYPD later recovered the two stolen guns therein in crack raids in Manhattan.There have been other complaints about Delta\u2019s baggage handling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, a schizophrenic whom law enforcement had interviewed and determined to have been harmless checked in to Delta in Alaska with a ticket to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Apparently no one saw a red flag when all he checked for a roughly 5,000 mile flight was a pistol box containing a 9mm and some loaded magazines.  When he retrieved it in baggage claim in Florida he opened it, loaded the gun, and went on a shooting rampage in the baggage terminal which left five innocent people dead and more than forty wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta\u2019s response was to become the only US airline to my knowledge to require checked suitcases with firearms to be secured with giant zip-ties, which the recipient was forbidden to remove while in the airport, and to require the owner to pick them up at the baggage office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve grudgingly put up with that when I\u2019ve had to fly Delta. This past week, flying to Key West on a Delta reservation made by my client, I retrieved my suitcase\u2026wrapped in baggage ties that went over instead of through the suitcase handles, which required me to pick the damn thing up in my arms like a baby and carry it outside, where a \u201cfriendly\u201d with a pocket knife obliged me by removing the ties on the sidewalk. I use Type 01 hardshell suitcases which don\u2019t have outside pockets for disposable edged tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s think about this. Smart fliers with guns use suitcases with outside pouches and place a pocket knife in the latter so they can open the suitcase whenever they want. If, as happened to me once in Jacksonville, Delta puts the bag on the regular carousel, anyone who sees it with the zip-ties and is \u201cin the know\u201d can seize it and flee with it, obtaining a stolen weapon illegally. It took us a long time to get the airlines not to put conspicuous \u201cContains Firearms\u201d tags on suitcases with guns, but it only took one stupid fiat from Delta to defeat that and create a new \u201csteal me\u201d tag in the form of zip-ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knee-jerk reactions are generally stupid. This is a classic example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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