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Don't lose it this summer. At least not the way Jennifer and Pat Mangold did when they stayed in the Florida Keys last August.

Here are a few insider tips for finding what you lost this summer

January 23, 2024July 21, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Don’t lose it this summer. At least not the way Jennifer and Pat Mangold did when they stayed in the Florida Keys last August.

Categories The Navigator
Carole Brown’s airline ticket is probably a lost cause. When I present a borderline case, I’m not 100 percent certain of it.

Is this discount airline ticket a lost cause?

January 22, 2024October 8, 2012 by Christopher Elliott

Carole Brown’s airline ticket — or lack of a ticket — is probably a lost cause. But this being Monday, when I present a borderline case, I’m not 100 percent certain of it.

Categories Commentary
Do you trust GPS directions? If you have a driver’s license, chances are that you also have an amusing story about GPS directions.

Do you trust GPS directions?

January 22, 2024June 16, 2012 by Christopher Elliott

If you have a driver’s license, chances are that you also have an amusing story about GPS directions. Here’s mine.

Categories Commentary, The Navigator
Strangest case I've come across in my consumer complaints. It involves a honeymooning couple's missing wedding photos, me, and another me.

Does Sandals owe me anything for deleting my wedding photos?

January 22, 2024February 14, 2012 by Christopher Elliott

This is one of the strangest cases I’ve come across in my two decades of fielding consumer complaints. It involves a honeymooning couple’s missing wedding photos, me, and another me.

Categories Commentary
Not only does it involve a railroad (I don't think I've ever gotten a lost-luggage complaint from Amtrak). More than a century old.

Can this trip be saved? They lost my great-grandmother’s luggage, and I want it back

February 13, 2024August 29, 2011 by Christopher Elliott

Adelle Gloger’s luggage claim may be the strangest case that’s crossed my desk. Ever.

Categories Commentary
Rose showed up at the luggage carousel in Baltimore after a recent flight she found her almost-new American Tourister bag in bad shape.

Is this enough compensation? A flight voucher for damaged luggage

January 20, 2024March 29, 2011 by Christopher Elliott

When Rose Satz showed up at the luggage carousel in Baltimore after a recent American Airlines flight from Dallas, she found her almost-new American Tourister bag in bad shape.

Categories Commentary
We suspect this kind of thing is happening at every major airport in the country. It's the only explanation for the thousand stolen bags.

Sky Harbor’s luggage scandal: Who’s to blame for a thousand stolen bags?

January 19, 2024November 4, 2009 by Christopher Elliott

Outraged? No, those of us who fly suspect this kind of thing is happening at every major airport in the country. It’s the only explanation.

Categories Commentary
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