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Seated bags to require Swiss train tickets

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:53:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Watch where you set your bag on Swiss trains starting 11 December when the new timetable and new rules come into effect. More and more Swiss are taking the train, a mostly good thing, but for anyone traveling with a bag during peak hours, a new rule could be costly: if you [...]

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Thomson issues statement for Geneva air passengers who lost bags

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:19:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The UK-based travel company Thomson, has issued the following statement for passengers who lost their luggage when a small group of baggage handlers went on strike in Geneva 2 January. Thousands of bags were misplaced 2-3 January and many are still being returned, to Thomson customers but also those of some [...]

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Geneva airport, closed 6 hours, re-opens

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:09:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Travelers’ woes in Geneva continued Sunday 10 January, when Cointrin Airport closed for six hours, the longest closure in 25 years, thanks to snow. The airport is now open again, after 10cm of snow was removed. Some 70 flights were delayed or canceled, but traffic remains uncertain due to snowfall in [...]

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Geneva airport strike continues but passengers fret over lost bags

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:52:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A very small number of Geneva airport’s Swissport baggage handlers remain on strike after lengthy negotiations with cantonal officials failed to bring about a settlement by 8 January. Airline passengers took little interest in the striket, faced with their own concerns about lost bags and missed flights: bags misplaced a week [...]

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Luggage lost, try Phoenix, Arizona

Sean Ecker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:12:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A couple in a western suburb of Phoenix, Arizona were detained Tuesday, 3 November by police who found more than a thousand of items of luggage on their property. All the luggage was apparently taken from carrousels at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor international airport. None of the bags had identification tags on them. One of the [...]