I just left my Ipad on a QF flight.....should I expect to see it again??

[awilcockson]

I left my wallet on a QF flight once

Didn't even realise until I received a call from QF, picked it up at lost baggage and all the cash was even still in it!

I now don't put anything of value in the seat pocket (other than my iPad, which I leave sticking up enough that I can't miss it).

 

[nlagalle]

Well I have left my sony noise cancelling earphones on QF98 today. I am awaiting a phone call back from them.. fingers crossed!

 

[flyingfan]

I just got the call......they have it!!

Excellent result!

whilst sitting in CL, they simply put it on my seat for the connecting flight (different seat) so when I reboarded it was there!

Smooth, I like their style:!:

 

[Happy Trails]

Last year flying SIN-BKK with TG it was announced that some idiot had left a laptop at the screening point.
I had a quiet chuckle when about a dozen people leapt from from their seats and started furiously checking their carry-on.
It was only when I got home that I realised said idiot was me.
I was able to pick it up the next day though.

 

[an*g-bne]

Last year flying SIN-BKK with TG it was announced that some idiot had left a laptop at the screening point.
I had a quiet chuckle when about a dozen people leapt from from their seats and started furiously checking their carry-on.
It was only when I got home that I realised said idiot was me.
I was able to pick it up the next day though.

I was actually on a TG SIN-BKK flight last January (Jan 2011) when that same announcement happened. I was one of the dozen or so people who jumped up checking my carry-ons...

Of course, this sort of thing probably happens frequently, so chances it was the same flight would have been pretty slim.

 

[Katie]

I found a Kindle or some kind of eReader in my AA ORD-LAX flight yesterday. Didn't even realise it was in the seat pocket until quite late in the flight. I handed it in to an FA; hopefully it will be returned to its owner.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Last year flying SIN-BKK with TG it was announced that some idiot had left a laptop at the screening point.
I had a quiet chuckle when about a dozen people leapt from from their seats and started furiously checking their carry-on.
It was only when I got home that I realised said idiot was me.
I was able to pick it up the next day though.

You do not walk alone!

 

[Sprucegoose]

It is heartening to read this thread and hear that so many missing items are found and returned to their rightful owners. The only times I have forgotten things on planes (phone etc) I have never seen them again.

When I return things I find, I find my thing get returned.....weird....

 

[Happy Trails]

You do not walk alone!

Thanks for that, and being on TG I can't even blame over-indulgence in the F lounge for that one.

 

[Happy Trails]

I was actually on a TG SIN-BKK flight last January (Jan 2011) when that same announcement happened. I was one of the dozen or so people who jumped up checking my carry-ons...

Of course, this sort of thing probably happens frequently, so chances it was the same flight would have been pretty slim.

I was thinking small world, but my only TG flight that month was is in the opposite direction, BKK-SIN, so I guess you're right that it's not that uncommon.
Unless it was actually late Dec 2010.

 

[casanovawa]

Just after I had bought my netbook if was on a flight from the East back to Perth and stopped in Adelaide probably and only as I was sitting in the terminal waiting for my next flight did I realise I didn't have, rushed back to the plane that thankfully hadn't left and was able to retrieve after going on board with one of the cleaning crew...

And then just a week or so ago I hopped off a flight in Cancun and put the netbook on top of an ATM to get some pesos out, anywayforgot to pick it up of course and only realised I didn't have it when I was on the bus leaving the airport which had stopped at another terminal, jumped off the bus, grabbed my luggage and went up a few side roads to short cut it back to Terminal 3... Tried to explain to the guards outside the door of arrivals that I needed to go back into the hall to look for, I was sure it would be gone, then after a bit of explaining he said a laptop had been found by security and was being taken to lost property... Had to answer a few questions about what was on the HDD before they were convinced it was mine (and they put it back through a scanner) but BIG relief...

A scare like that keeps you aware of where things are for a while...

 

[AVC]

Hopefully if you have iCloud setup with Find my iPad?

Hmm, there's some good advice. I might have to set that up.

I once left my mobile phone on board at BKK. It was probably being sold at the local markets before I even cleared customs..

 

[simongr]

I think I have reported some of these recently:

iPod Touch - left at the QF F lounge. Collected from lost property by my driver on my behalf. Only realised a couple of days later.
iPod Touch - lost in flight down the side of a CX seat - we spent 15 mins on descent pulling the seat apart and couldnt find it. Was chased down the aerobridge by the CSM who had had another look and found it.
Blackberry - lost on a flight on KA BLR - HKG. Was found by a Boeing exec flying HKG-PEK and couriered to me at their expense :shock:
Laptop - left at security screening. Was rushed due to late flight JFK-LHR so forgot to grab my laptop in transit at LHR on my way to LCA. Reached into the overhead to get my laptop out in flight and couldnt fnd it. CSM called back to LHR who had found it - tried to pick it up on the way back from LCA but lost property was closed so eventually managed to speak to them from HKG and arranged courier back to Oz - arrived slightly after I did...

 

[david-au-2000]

This is one of my recurring nightmares! I now check every pocket TWICE because there's so much stuff, from the iPad 2 to little adaptor plugs for the noise-cancelling headphones.

 

[k_sheep]

Only thing I've left behind was my 7yo samsung mobile on a DJ BNE-CHC flight back in the early 2000s flight. Got it back on the return flight (because honestly, no one would steal it!).

Mind you, left my passport at TRS on my first solo overseas trip!

Don't travel with any iThings. Afraid that whole phase has passed me by.