Nobody wants to buy someone else's luggage? Lost Sale Lost Property Auction at the Airport

The contract for international air carriage is governed by Warsaw Convention. Based on the agreement, the following must be respected:

general principles of air transportation of people, cargo in accordance with federal regulations (VEC RF Article 102, paragraph 1);
it is possible to establish their own federal laws for air transportation (VEC RF article 102, paragraph 2).

The established procedure must comply with general principles and cannot degrade passenger service on airlines.

Lufthansa baggage rules

Lufthansa's allowance is set in accordance with the class of service:

Economy class - permissible weight - 23 kilograms, number of seats - 1.
Premium economy class - permissible weight - 23 kg, number of seats - 2.
Business class - permissible weight - up to 32 kg, number of seats - 2.
First class - permissible weight - up to 32 kg, quantity - 2.

Additional fees will be charged for the exceeded rate.

Information regarding carry-on baggage

Its quantity and size Lufthansa allows for carriage, depending on the class of service:

economy - one piece up to 8 kg;
premium economy - one up to 8 kg;
business - two to 8 kg;
first class - two up to 8 kg.

Each place is permissible in size 55x40x20 cm, luggage must weigh less than 8 kg. The cover for clothes can be taken with you to the salon if the size is less than 57x54x15 cm.

Oversized transported in the cargo compartment. Any excess weight will be subject to additional fees.

The import of products of animal origin into the countries of the European Union is regulated by veterinary legislation. All animal products are subject to veterinary control.

Flight fares

Paid additional services for exceeding the norm do not allow transporting more than 45 kilograms. In some directions weight is limited to 32 kg.

If the norms are exceeded, the cargo is sent to the baggage department. Payment is made according to the tariff for the carriage of goods. For example, for sports equipment the surcharge ranges from 50 to 200 euros.

Ski equipment is an exception. The coordination of sports equipment is done before departure at the airline's service centers.

Tariffs introduced:

Economy Light.
Economy Classic.
Economy Flex.
Business Class.

The Economy-Light tariff is suitable for tourists who bring only hand luggage with them and know exactly the day of departure. According to the fare is prohibited from rebooking and returning the ticket. Additionally, at any time, you can add the carriage of one unit of cargo.

The Economy Classic tariff includes additional servicing and flexible conditions. Rebooking of the ticket is allowed at this tariff.

Economy Flex is suitable for passengers with flexible travel plans. Rebooking and refunds with deduction of fees are allowed.

Business Class is a relaxing and comfortable journey to the maximum. In business class, you can choose an extended list of services with flexible conditions:

high quality food;
two luggage can be carried free of charge;
other privileges.

Services for additional payment

As an additional service a passenger seat, baggage allowance or an upgrade to business class is booked. There is an option to check in and carry one piece of baggage at the Light fare, provided that the first piece of baggage is added to your booking.

Lufthansa baggage rates vary depending on the circumstances of the booking. Additional services are booked:

together with an on-line ticket the cost is 15 euro;
at the sales counter directly to the airport - 30 euro;
at the gate - 45 euro.

The most profitable - first option. This is better than paying an excess weight fee.

A few words about duty free

Duty-free shopping in the international zone of the airport or on a passenger aircraft is cheaper than the same items in the store.

They are carried in the cabin of the aircraft if there is a receipt. The goods are not allowed to be opened before arrival. Lufthansa offers duty free to its passengers with a bonus discount system.

Lufthansa: baggage auctions

Forgotten suitcases, bags and other things are put up for auction in Germany. The customer does not need to know what is inside the forgotten baggage. Lufthansa keeps things in a locker for three months.

After that, forgotten suitcases, bags and other things are put up for auction. First, all things are looked through by customs officers.

The auction does not sell money, expired food products, weapons, drugs.

Approvals and prohibitions

Passports, necessary papers, medicines, valuables, laptops, mobile phones are transported in the aircraft cabin with hand luggage. Allowed to carry one additional piece of maximum 30 x 40 x 10 cm:

wheelchair;
portable cradle;
baby car seat;
folding stroller for one child;
orthopedic device for movement.

It is prohibited to carry in the cabin: weapons, imitation / replica weapons, objects that can be used as weapons, pointed, sharp or blunt objects:

scissors;
pocket knife;
baseball bat;
Other items that are classified as dangerous.

It is not allowed to carry in the luggage compartment:

matches;
lighters;
accumulators;
spare cartridges;
e-cigarettes;
fuel cell batteries;
portable oxygen concentrators.

To ensure the safety of an aircraft flight, there are strict rules, including strictly regulated and transportation of things on board. Our experts have prepared a number of materials on the norms and costs of baggage such

Did you know that the practice of selling luggage that the owners once lost and did not return for it has long been developed in Europe? Airlines store other people's suitcases for two years, and then simply put them up for auction. The most interesting thing is that neither the airline employees nor the customers know what they will get in this suitcase, but, nevertheless, they are bargaining for the suitcase they like with unknown items inside.

You can only guess about the stuffing of a suitcase by its outline. For example, in Poland, at such an auction, the starting price was 2.5 euros for a suitcase, but buyers got excited, and the highest bid was about 150 euros for a suitcase with no idea what it was inside. The average price for a suitcase was about 80 euros. Basically, there were clothes inside, but there were also some equipment: laptops, tablets, cell phones, digital cameras. Auctions are always very fun, because sometimes people pay a lot of money for completely unnecessary things. And some trade to the last and receive branded accessories and clothing. Whoever is lucky.

The most popular auctions are in Italy. The inhabitants of the Apennine Peninsula are so fond of excitement that they arrange trades there every day from 10 to 16 hours. Sometimes the rates there go up to $ 500! The starting cost of a suitcase is on average 75 euros.

In Germany, auctions are held only 20 times a year, but the event turns into a real celebration. There, the starting cost is about 10 euros.

And in the United States, auctions are not held. There, all lost suitcases are sent to the Unclaimed Baggage Center. Things eventually end up in the small town of Scottsboro in Alabama. There they are taken apart, cleaned in a specially created laundry and put up for sale.

Sixty percent of the products are clothing. Counters with it occupy the entire first floor of the store. There are also shelves of books, CD racks, electronics baskets and jewelry display cases. Sports goods occupy an entire department in one section of the store, and a special room contains goods that do not fit into any of the categories.

Of course, items in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are on sale at a huge discount. For example, a lost Versace dress with an original cost of $ 1,000 can be bought for as little as $ 55, an Adidas suit for $ 15, an iPad for $ 70, a tube of used Japanese toothpaste for 50 cents, a sapphire for $ 15,000, and a diamond bracelet. - for $ 7,500, gold wedding rings and pearl necklaces - for half their face value. More than a million customers come to the store every year.

According to statistics, the leaders in the loss of baggage are Lufthansa, AirFrance and British Airways.

Luggage auctions are not held in Russia. Airlines believe it is unfair to sell other people's belongings. Therefore, they are always waiting for their owners.

It all began in 1970, when an insurance agent named Doyle Owens borrowed $ 300 and a pickup truck and bought about a hundred bags left on the regular buses. He brought them to Scottsboro, a town of approximately 15,000, expecting to sell them out within weeks. He was surprised when all the bags were sold out in one day. For Owens, it was just a small business, which he did until 1978.
The US Baggage Center now occupies an entire 15,000 square meter city block and employs 110 workers.

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The offered suitcases, baggage pieces and items of detection have been introduced in the EU according to the procedure and are therefore not subject to restrictions on the free movement of goods. From the content, they were close to the items of harmful goods and wet parts are prohibited, cash, remotely.

Either suitcases, or items found during a journey, or returning home were lost, we do not know, In accordance with this, the state is from quite decent to maybe less decent, from brought linen or clothes to new ones, everything is possible. If they proceed from themselves, indicate that everything that can be in the suitcase, nothing is impossible.

At the suitcase auctions, however, there is not only a suitcase, but also found items, for example: Children's cars, mobile phones, photographs, camcorders, clothes, sun umbrellas, umbrellas, jewelry, surprise packages, laptop computers and much more. Please note that found items may also be of international origin.

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in the capital's Domodedovo airport, about 10 thousand orphan items are found annually, or about 900 per month. Most often, these are all sorts of little things that are placed in special trays when passing pre-flight control. “Usually these are cell phones, glasses, belts, keys or watches,” Sergei Martirosyan, an employee of the airport's press service, told NI. “They bring laptops, portable devices, toys from the plane, and once a denture was brought into the unclaimed baggage chamber.”

Employees of another airport terminal in the capital claim that any forgotten thing, no matter how expensive it is, ends up in the unclaimed luggage room. “First of all, this is a security issue. After all, a forgotten thing may turn out to be an explosive device, - the employee of the press service of the Vnukovo airport explained to "NI". - If a travel bag is found, first of all it is checked for explosion hazard. If everything is fine, an act, an inventory is drawn up, and the find is sent to the unclaimed luggage room. "

Each airport has at least two rooms where forgotten and lost things are kept. One stores the "losses" of passengers of domestic flights, the other - things found in terminals and on board international flights. This division is not accidental. The fact is that the search for the owners of things flying within the country is carried out by the services of the airports themselves. The air harbor specialists contact the departure airport, clarify the data of the baggage in order to find out who it belongs to, and return it to the owner. With international baggage, the situation is slightly different. Information about him is entered into the World Tracer automated tracing system. After the receipt of the report of the loss, all the information in a special coding goes into a single database, the center of which is located in the United States. From there, the data is sent to all the airports of the planet included in the system, after which they are automatically compared with information about unclaimed baggage, which is entered into the database by airlines from all over the world. If the data of the lost and found luggage matches, it will be sent to the owner.

However, such an owner tracing system only works with luggage left in the terminal or on the belt. After registration and passing through customs control, a special marking is attached to the baggage, which indicates the flight number, the point of departure and arrival, information about the owner. It is more difficult if a lady's handbag, other carry-on luggage and small items are lost, the owner of which is almost impossible to establish. Such things will be kept in the unclaimed baggage room until the owner finds himself or until the expiration of the storage period. According to the decree of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, if things were found on board the aircraft, then they will wait for the owners in the storage room for 30 days, after which they will be transferred to the terminal for storage for six months. The same storage period is provided for unclaimed baggage.

According to airport employees, they are doing everything possible to find the owner and return the lost to him. In particular, the Vnukovo press service gives the following example: “Recently, there was a television filming in one of our terminals. Before entering the sterile zone, the entire film crew underwent a mandatory inspection. There, the journalist, without noticing it, forgot his passport. In the midst of the filming process, his wife called him and said that his passport was waiting for him at control. As it turned out later, the security officers immediately found the loss and reported it over the speakerphone, however, as often happens with passengers, the journalist simply did not pay attention to this announcement. "

But if the owner has not been found, and the storage period at the airport has expired, then forgotten things are disposed of. According to the representatives of the airports, such a fate awaits clothes, cosmetics, and even expensive equipment. The only exceptions are new items with a tag - they "are subject to sale in accordance with the procedure established by law," or rather, they will find themselves new owners in second-hand shops and second-hand shops. So that everything acquired by back-breaking labor does not burn out in a blue flame, experts advise absent-minded passengers to write their last name, address, phone number (with city and country codes) legibly and in Latin letters on two tags. One should be attached to the outside of the suitcase, the second should be put on top of things inside. In addition, it is best to remove used luggage tags to avoid confusion.

The procedure for storing forgotten items at railway stations and on trains is slightly different. If the find was found at the station, it is sent to the storage room, where it is kept for 30 days, after which it is disposed of. If the loss is revealed on the train, then it is handed over to the head of the train, who, in turn, transfers it to the storage room at the terminal station. “The only thing that is disposed of immediately is food products found in the luggage,” Olga Vnukovskaya, an employee of the Russian Railways press service, told NI. - But, as practice shows, most often passengers lose documents, phones and laptops. Naturally, the luggage office staff try to track down the owners if there is at least some contact information. " (http://www.newizv.ru/society/2011-08-26/150168-rasprodazha-propazh.html)

For those who are especially curious, there is a video on how to open a suitcase without opening the lock.

In September, Turkish Airlines will start a sale of lost items. According to Emel Ersenmez Kachar, head of the Istanbul department of the carrier's lost and found office, keeping lost and forgotten items at airports and on board aircraft is too expensive. According to the estimates of the Turks, only last year, passengers forgot during the trip and did not remember any more about 478 suitcases, 537 wheelchairs, 32 wheelchairs - in total there are more than 14 thousand different things on the list.

Of course, not only Turkish passengers forget their things on the way. So, only in the capital's Domodedovo airport, about 10 thousand orphan items are found annually, or about 900 per month. Most often, these are all sorts of little things that are placed in special trays when passing pre-flight control. “Usually these are cell phones, glasses, belts, keys or watches,” Sergei Martirosyan, an employee of the airport's press service, told NI. “They bring laptops, portable devices, toys from the plane, and once a denture was brought into the unclaimed baggage chamber.”

The procedure for storing forgotten items at railway stations and on trains is slightly different. If the find was found at the station, it is sent to the storage room, where it is kept for 30 days, after which it is disposed of. If the loss is revealed on the train, then it is handed over to the head of the train, who, in turn, transfers it to the storage room at the terminal station. “The only thing that is disposed of immediately is food found in the luggage,” Olga Vnukovskaya, an employee of the Russian Railways press service, told NI. - But, as practice shows, most often passengers lose documents, phones and laptops. Naturally, the luggage office staff try to track down the owners if there is at least some contact information. "

Forgotten things are kept in hotels for three months. “If during this period the owner has not contacted us for the loss, the finds are disposed of,” Natalya Yegorova, head of the department for the maintenance of the Izmailovo hotel, told NI.

We add that the number of forgetful passengers and guests of hotels has remained unchanged over the years, say the keepers of unclaimed things.

According to the rules of the International Air Transport Association, lost items at the airport are sent to the lost baggage auction. First, the suitcases are handed over for special storage (for a maximum of 2 years). If, within the specified period, the owner does not return for his belongings, the suitcases and bags are disposed of or given up for auction.

Lost baggage auction

The latter practice is widespread in the United States and. The lot is not unpacked, so the buyer does not know anything about the contents of the suitcase. It is possible, by pure chance, to buy expensive things, electronics and travel souvenirs.

There are many ways to return things to the rightful owner, but they do not always work, and destroying bags is less profitable and pitiful. Before becoming lots at the auction, suitcases go through a certain identification procedure.

When passengers check-in, a tag is attached to their luggage with information about the owner, points of departure and arrival. For various reasons, the sticker can be torn off, mixed up or damaged to such a state that the data cannot be read. In most cases, the passengers themselves find the loss during the day. There are some that can be followed to reduce the risk of losing your luggage.

If the bag or suitcase has been left unattended for more than 24 hours, a luggage detective will take care of it. It is the responsibility of this person to describe the loss and launch the obtained parameters (color, size and special features) into the worldwide database of missing baggage. The base sends information to all airports in the world, and in any air harbor, the owner can find out about a lost suitcase.

After 5 days of inactivity, the bags are opened in storage. Baggage detective describes all the contents and launches information about things into the aforementioned database.

If the suitcase is not found according to this information, it will be sent to the auction.

Every year 80 thousand bags and suitcases are lost in the world. Airlines can give baggage to the auction in 3 months, despite the 2 years established by international rules. As a rule, the auctions are carried out directly at the airport. Suitcases are never unpacked.

Items prohibited for carriage are seized, as well as food. The purchased things are most often kept for themselves, but there are people who are trying to find the owners of the lost bags on their own. The most famous of these people is the Englishwoman Luna Labu.

Lost air baggage is auctioned off in Germany

Some buyers are driven by intrigue, some are driven by the desire to buy things for family and friends, because for 80 euros you can buy a Chanel dress and shoes. The lufthansa auction starts at an average of 10 euros, and the final price is unpredictable.

Lost baggage shop in Scottsboro

According to statistics, the leaders in the loss of baggage are large European airlines: Lufthansa, AirFrance and BritishAirways. At the Kansai airport in the Japanese city of Osaka, not a single bag has been lost since 1994.