Breeze behind lost luggage

These conditions are expected to continue over the next few weeks.” Maloney added that to help alleviate this problem, the airline has limited the number of seats sold out of St Vincent to allow some baggage to be carried, “especially in the times where these wind conditions are expected.” Steve James, one of the affected passengers from LI 771 on January 7, had reached out to Newsday for help two days into his wait for the luggage left behind in St Vincent to be flown to Piarco International Airport, Piarco, Trinidad.

Four days after James and the other passengers landed in Trinidad, their luggage arrived overnight (between Monday, January 9 and Tuesday, January 10) at Piarco, along with other delayed baggage, on a baggage- only flight and a commercial cargo flight. Without making specific reference to this flight, Maloney told Newsday, “LIAT makes every effort to have the bags forwarded as soon as possible to be reunited with passengers, including on other LIAT flights out of St Vincent that have space to take these bags, as well as using external services.” Affected passengers “are informed when the bags have arrived in the country (station) and reunited with their bags at their earliest convenience.

LIAT continues to make safety its number one priority and hopes to continue to serve our customers in the region,” Maloney stated.

Information on compensation on delays and delayed baggage can be found in LIAT’s Conditions of Carriage