Posted on 03/16/2023 7:36:04 PM PDT by lowbridge
Keyonne says he left his carry-on bag at the Spirit gate counter on February 19. He was headed back to Los Angeles from his uncle's funeral in New Orleans, that's when he got in a disagreement with the agent over doing a gate check of his large suitcase.
“She said that I'd have to reschedule my flight instead of doing a gate check, and I knew that was not true because of my travels with my nonprofit.”
He asked for a manager and paid an extra fee to take it on the plane, but he forgot his small carry on at the desk.
He was told to file a lost and found report when he got home, but when his carry-on never showed up there, he requested the video from Armstrong International. And that's when he says he saw the gate agent, and others he never interacted with, taking his things. It appears they hand off some belongings, while pouring his life-saving medication out, while taking cell phone pictures and laughing, and throwing his keys away.
“There were my house keys, my car keys. When I got back to L.A., I was not able to get into my home right away. I was not even able to start my car. Everything was halted until I paid locksmiths,” Brooks said.
In the bag was valuable jewelry. One pendant was a very sentimental family heirloom. Keyonne says he got a members of the New Orleans City Council, Councilmen Green and Giarrusso, involved, who told him Spirit, and GAT Airline Ground Support, would make him whole again. But he says those companies are only agreeing to pay part of his loss now. So, he's hired an attorney.
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They deserve to have criminal records and barred from interacting with the public.
This was not TSA
Same class of affirmative-action zeros.
That is disgusting.
I had a similar thing happen at a London airport and was sent absolutely everything back, including keys, wallet, money and jewelry. I even told the woman handling it to deduct the price of sending it back from the cash in the wallet, and she took nothing over, and left the rest.
OK, it was 20 years ago. God only knows how it would be today.
If I have a choice I will drive rather than deal with these people.
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