The conductor on the Railjet from Vienna to Salzburg pointed my friend Claudia toward car 21 without being asked. She carried a folded stroller under one arm and a four-year-old by the hand, wearing the particular look of parents who had already tallied the price of three different forms of transportation that morning. “Family coach,” he said politely. It turned out to have a small cinema screen showing something with a cartoon fox, a shelf
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Lately, I’ve had a lot of bad luck with my luggage while traveling on long-haul flights. My bags were delayed three trips in a row – reaching my destination only 1 to 3 days after I had arrived. After these three consecutive luggage mishaps, I was confident the airlines could not mess up a fourth time.
They didn’t – but my bout of bad luck did not end with that fourth flight. Arriving at Paris …