Woman Forced to Check Bag is Victim of SFO Luggage Theft Spike
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Heidi Bretz didn’t want to check her bag, but by the time she made it to her gate for a flight home to San Francisco, a United Airlines attendant told her that she didn’t have a choice: There was no more overhead space.
She reluctantly let them tag her bag and take it away. It was free of charge and came with a tracking number so that she could follow it, they said.
But when Bretz landed at SFO, her bag didn’t show up on the conveyor belt at the airport’s open-area baggage claim.
She checked the tracking number