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• How Baggage Handling Works
• How Airlines Work
• How Airports Work
• How Airplanes Work

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• The Unclaimed Baggage Center

Sources

• "Airline On-Time Performance Slips, Cancellations and Mishandled Bags Up in June." U.S. Department of Transportation. http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot7707.htm
• Collis, Roger. "Getting Compensation for Lost Luggage." The New York Times. February 25, 2007. http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/travel/25qna.1.html
• "Fly-Rights: A Consumer Guide to Air Travel." U.S. Department of Transportation. http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/publications/flyrights.htm#baggage
• Garfinkel, Perry. "Lost. And, Often Found." The New York Times. May 24, 2005. http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/business/24lost.html?ex=
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• "Strange World of Lost Luggage." CNN. November 29, 2005. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/11/22/lost.luggage/index.html
• The Unclaimed Baggage Center. http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/index.html