One Saskatoon woman’s wild journey finding her luggage after trip to Mexico | 24CA News
It has been a sport of sit and watch for one Saskatoon household as their baggage continues to be lacking after a visit to Mexico for Christmas.
“I was so looking forward to a holiday, but that holiday was not the holiday by any means that I was prepared for,” stated traveller Michelle Linklater.
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She started her journey on Dec. 21 when she flew into Calgary, the place she was instructed her baggage would observe her to Cancún.
It by no means made it there.
“I didn’t have a whole lot of carry-on luggage and neither did my daughter, so we didn’t have the essentials,” Linklater defined.
“You hear people say, ‘you should carry that,’ but I was just like, ‘it’s just a day or so’… then when we landed in Cancún, that is when they said you likely won’t receive your luggage.”
After paying for garments, toothbrushes, baggage for the journey again and extra, she tried to get pleasure from her journey. And for her daughter, issues did flip round.
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“My daughter actually received her luggage on December 25, so it was kind of a Christmas miracle,” she stated.
For Linklater nevertheless, it’s a special story.
After making an attempt to go looking by a number of baggage storage rooms in Cancún, Calgary and again house in Saskatoon in hopes of discovering the brilliant inexperienced suitcase, she by no means discovered it.
But WestJet did.
One of the numerous rooms Michelle Linklater looked for her baggage in throughout Cancun, Calgary and Saskatoon.
Courtesy of Michelle Linklater
“I got home on Dec. 31 and that was when I got the first email saying we have located your luggage,” Linklater stated. “Your luggage was located in Mexico on Dec. 23.”
Yet over every week later, she has but to obtain her baggage with no replace on arrival.
In a press release to Global News, WestJet stated, “Our baggage teams across our network continue to sort through the delivery of baggage after the large backlog of cancellations experienced over the holidays, but they are working around the clock to get them moving and delivered to our guests as fast as possible.”
“We sincerely apologize for the impact this has had on guests and appreciate their patience as we work to deliver their baggage as quickly as possible.”
And whereas WestJet could also be engaged on getting baggage again to lots of of shoppers, it doesn’t make it any simpler for Linklater and he or she doesn’t anticipate to obtain her baggage in any respect.
“There is too much luggage they are dealing with,” she stated. “I am not hopeful anymore.”
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