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CHECK-OUT / PUSHPA GIRIMAJI Going abroad?

Whether you are travelling on business or going on a holiday, I would suggest that you keep all your valuables in your cabin baggage and certainly not in your check-in baggage.

Because, if your checked-in baggage happens to get lost and the airline is unable to trace it, then the compensation that they pay may not be adequate to cover your losses.

Take the case of Sai Leelavathi, decided by the apex consumer court last month.

While she demanded nearly Rs two lakh to cover the losses caused to her as a result of the airline losing her baggage during her journey from London to Cairo, the airline offered to pay only US $400, calculated at the rate of US $20 per kilogram of baggage weight (her baggage weighed 20 kg).

The apex consumer court expressed its inability to help her in view of the Ca...

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