Today's Mail & Guardian has a report about baggage losses at South African Airways, which is rather disturbing. Apparently in the three month period of 1st December to 29th February, a staggering 7,868 items of luggage were reported missing at Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London airports.
It reminded me of an incident many, many years ago when I worked for SAA. I decided to keep a diary of my overseas flights - crews, what we did, incidents, and so on. After the very first entry (thankfully), my suitcase went missing somewhere between here and Lisbon! (The only time it happened to me, I might add, in three years.) I wasn't worried about the clothes or anything else that might have been in the bag. Just the Diary! It scared the daylights out of me that some stranger somewhere would be reading my diary. I never attempted it again!
Moral of the story? If you're travelling to S.A., don't journalise it - just Blog it!
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