Has “given up” his suitcase: Christoph Waltz
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A suitcase belonging to the actor Christoph Waltz was lost on a Lufthansa flight in December – and has not been found since.
Waltz told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he had checked in the brand-new piece of luggage “with childlike trust” – “in the meantime given up in the literal sense” – and hasn't seen it again since.
The suitcase would have contained "things that I have grown fond of," and if the complaint process between him and the Lufthansa hotline was "a medical emergency, I would have been dead for weeks," the two-time Oscar winner continued.
"At Lufthansa, trying to get your suitcase back gets you caught up in a completely depersonalized and absolutely industrial process." There has been "a Property Irregularity Report for more than two months, reference number BER-LH-33385."
Waltz isn't the only one with his problems.
In the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of air travelers in Germany despaired of canceled planes, forced rebooking and delays, never-ending queues at check-in and security, notoriously understaffed service hotlines - and again and again the fact that their suitcases did not arrive.
But even after the peak travel season in summer, there still seem to be problems.
(Read more about the suitcase chaos at Lufthansa here)
In any case, Waltz says he checked in the suitcase on December 16, 2022 before a flight from Munich to Berlin, and the luggage was to be delivered on December 30, 2022 with flight LH 1934. "I know all the numbers by heart," says the actor.
The 66-year-old Hollywood star does not know whether the suitcase was stolen or lost for other reasons.
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