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New Technology Helping Airports Reunite You With Your Lost Stuff

01/25/23
*Our story about airport lost and found first appeared on NBC News With recent airline fiascos triggering pileups of luggage at baggage carousels across the country, airports and airlines are increasingly using technology to help track down travelers’ missing possessions. The lost-and-found department at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport (SAV) in Georgia says it has logged in […]

Ever lose something at an airport? Tell us about it.

01/15/23
Laptops, cell phones, sunglasses, carry-on bags, suitcases, headphones, stuffed animals, coats, wallets, and wedding rings These are just some of the items travelers leave behind at airports and on airplanes that end up in the lost & found. For a news story we are working on about the systems airports and airlines use to catalog […]

Airports & airlines work hard to return lost items

11/03/12
As a recent NerdWallet study points out, the amount of luggage lost by airlines spikes during the holiday travel season. But passengers do their fair share of losing things on airplanes and in airports year-round. In 2011, for example, the lost-and-found department at Portland International Airport (PDX) logged nearly 16,000 misplaced objects. So far this year, passengers have […]

Lost and found at the airport

04/11/08
2,500 canceled American Airline flights means that a lot of people are spending a lot of time stuck at airports this week. It also means that a lot more stuff is going to end up getting misplaced or lost at airports this week. So maybe it’s a very good thing that this week my Well-Mannered […]