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Due to reasons beyond our control, we have to wait until SUNDAY to get our kitties (it's been too hot to ship the cats this week). On Sunday morning they'll fly from Columbus, OH to Washington DC to Boston. I hope Delta doesn't lose them. Sounds a little funny to image an airline losing two cats...

...but did you realize airlines lose the luggage of approximately 4.8 of every 1,000 passengers? (CNN.com) May not sound like a lot, but it is and it's definitely not Six Sigma. Let's say we're on a Boeing 737 that has a little over 130 seats per flight, and on a certain airline the BOS to EWR route alone has 12 rountrips per day. This means that on that route about 15 passengers will lose their luggage that day. And that's just one route on one day on one airline.

An article on CNN.com noted that 85% of lost luggage is actually traced and delivered within 48 hours. That means 13 of our 15 passengers will receive their luggage within 2 days. That could sound good or bad...you decide. Personally, I don't like it.

I remember flying to Green River, WY (Ever heard of it? Not likely) a few years ago for a client. I arrived at the airport, but my luggage didn't. I sighed and went to the lost baggage counter...

Felicia: "My luggage didn't arrive."
Employee: "Were you on that flight from Denver?"
Felicia: "Yes."
Employee: "That is soooo funny! The same flight came in yesterday and nobody's luggage was onboard!"
Felicia (not amused): "Ha. Great."

My luggage appeared the next evening, but not before I had to run to Wal-Mart and purchase a mini-wardrobe.

And imagine: British Airway's statistics show 5,000 bags disappeared permanently in 2003! Just be rest assured that if it happens to you, the airline apparently has to pay you as much as $2,500.

But I don't want $2,500...I want our cats!
Of course we also have to worry about heat. What if they get dehydrated?
And what if they're placed next to a pitbull?
Then their crate shifts all over during the flight?
How tramatized will they be once we get them?!?

Geez, I get myself all worked up over the dumbest things. What a waste of a blog entry.