Still waiting for a reply about me finding your bags and you finding me an Aussie lady...
When I was flying into Altoona they would routinely send the luggage to Addis Ababa and vice a versa. The airport code for Addis Ababa was ADD and for Altoona it is AOO, so on the bag tag they looked similar. When they used to get to Dulles it was a crapshoot where it would be sent. The rednecks where NOT happy when our gate agents in AOO told them their luggage was on the way to Africa.
Heh, that reminds me of a couple of weird ones from BGR that we would get. If a bag that was just going to BOS got into the transfer room they would see the B and the first half of the O and thing it said BGR, so the bag would be sent up and we would have to send it back to BOS.
Someone in BOS had this really stinky bag of fish and sent it up here just to get rid of it. That was a fun bin to be in....Not.
Someone in BGR was going BGR-BOS-CDG-somewhere. That got on the CVG cart, and was found (by me) after the BOS flight had left. I trucked it down to AAeagle and tossed it on their BOS flight that got in before the CDG flight left.
BGR, BGM, BTR, GRR.... its all the same place.
There was one night that CO changed the gate on the BGR flight. Unfortunately they had a cart of bags that was already brought to the fist gate that never got moved over. I filled out over 15 bag tracers that night....not fun at all. EWR actually called us and told us what they did. I ended up meeting that flight and making a PA announcement on the airplane before the passengers got off. Calm the masses so to speak.
We had 2 carts of bags on a -700 going to CVG, the ramp crew brought one of them out, and left the other in the garage. That flight left just before my shift started. Guess who was in the bins for the rest of the flights that day? Not the bonehead that left 50 bags behind.
All I can say is there are a lot of retards that work at airports. What else can you expect?
If I was still there I'd have you send me the tracer number, and I might be able to help, but thank god I don't work there anymore. I actually got my job offered back to me by the new station manager when I flew out to OKC for a job interview. If that doesn't work out I just might be crazy enough to take him up on that.