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US Airways Loses Luggage Filled with $50,000-Worth of Gucci Heirlooms

September 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM | by | Comment (1)

Have you had your bag lost by the airlines one too many times? Join the club! It's a club that now includes Giorgio Gucci, heir to the luxury brand Gucci and recent victim of shoddy baggage handling. Gucci flew into Philadelphia from Madrid and continued down to Washington DC a few days ago, in order to appear before Congress during their discussions of counterfeit goods. His baggage didn't follow him. US Airways lost it, but you see this isn't any regular old baggage, it's $50,000-worth of historical Gucci items.

The luggage contents, including Gucci bags handmade by his grandparents, custom suits for his Congressional appearance and hundreds of family photos, were to be used in the filming of a documentary about Gucci's life. We're betting he was traveling with Gucci luggage as well, and perhaps some baggage handler thought the luxury case too delicious to let pass by. As a result of the missing baggage, Giorgio had to rush to buy a cheap suit for his big day at Congress.

After reading Page Six's report, we were first flabbergasted by the incompetence of US Airways. Surely Gucci was flying first class and had checked the bags properly, but then we got mad at Gucci himself, for his ignorance in trusting an airline with such treasures. These are the types of trips when private jet travel could be a consideration, as those priceless items could have traveled on the seat next to him. Giorgio is due next in New York for the launch of the new Gucci perfume, and he's hoping US Airways' "investigation" of his lost bags concludes and he gets his stuff back by then.

[Photo: LovelyHandbag (coincidentally, this is a site that sells fakes, buyer beware)]

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Importance of Items

That's a bummer, but $50,000 worth of heirlooms must be of relatively little importance to Giorgio Gucci. I've never had a bag filled worth $50,000 of anything, but I did have a job that depended on my ability to give presentations with certain materials - and it didn't take long for me to learn that I should ship those materials via DHL or FedEx instead of relying on any airline's ability to successfully put my bags on my same flights.
Ted3x on September 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM #Permalink

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