The Port Authority and Queens DA office teamed up to arrest four baggage screeners for stealing items from passengers' luggage. What's more, some of the victims were celebrities: Chevy Chase, Joan Rivers and Susan Lucci. Crap, Joan lost some QXC jewelry! Actually, the PA and Queens DA conducted a sting, with planted money and video cameras - it's totally going to be a plot point of the new NBC series, LAX. This is good time to talk about Gothamist's philosophy with baggage that you check-in: The key is to make sure check-in items are heavy and smelly stuff - books, laundry, your stinky sneakers. If it's valuable, carry it on or carry it on you.
How to pack for a trip and how baggage handling works. Plus, there's been other thieving at the airport.
