Published 19:19 IST, September 30th 2019

'Loading done' says airline as flyer tweets photo of his bag on tarmac

German airline Lufthansa left a flyer’s bag on the tarmac of Munich airport even after the negligence was pointed to the crew by its owner Karn Rateria.

Reported by: Kunal Gaurav
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German airline Lufthansa allegedly left a flyer’s bag on tarmac in Munich even after negligence was pointed to m by its owner. Karn Rateria, a Mumbai resident, took to Twitter to speak about incident. Rateria tweeted an im of his lugg, lying on tarmac of Munich airport, and told Lufthansa that lugg was in his sight while crew said that loing was complete. 

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Mistake followed by ar mistake

Lufthansa replied to Rateria’s tweet which was apparently t related to incident at all. “Very sorry for that. re was an out of bagg system at airport in Frankfurt. My colleagues are doing ir best to locate bags and send m as quick as possible. /Sam,” tweeted Lufthansa. Since bag was left at Munich airport and Rateria was flying to Manchester, out of bagg system at Frankfurt airport h thing to do with it. Rateria replied same on Lufthansa’s clarification. “This was at Munich airport though. LH2500,” he wrote. 

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Users t impressed with Lufthansa’s justification

Rateria also said that he was one of first 15 people to board flight and was past security 2 hours before flight. Lufthansa’s mistake didn't go unpunished by netizens. "Lufthansa tweets about bagg out in Frankfurt but you were flying Munich to Manchester....strange justification," tweeted a user. Rateria replied saying, "Yep! Random reply without even looking at problem."
 
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Netizens find incident hilarious

Rateria said that incident was infuriating though he can find lighter side of it once he gets his bag back. A lot of users shared ir experiences with Lufthansa where y h goofed up. “Just today my neighbour came from Berlin and she lost her bagg to on way to Berlin plus flight was cancelled,” a user wrote. “She said Lufthansa has become horrible off late... I only flew once from NY but h a rar forgettable experience as AC was t working...” he ded.

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