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I know the feeling all too well. You’ve just landed at the airport and are patiently waiting at the baggage belt as all the other travelers from your flight collect their luggage and leave. Eventually, the belt stops spinning, and reality hits: Your bag is lost or delayed. Or perhaps your bag does arrive, but it has a large gash in the side or is otherwise damaged beyond normal wear and tear. Either way, here’s what you should know if an airline damages, loses or temporarily delays your checked bag, including some things you should do before leaving the airport. Delayed, missing or lost luggage: Do this at the airport If your checked baggage doesn’t arrive at your destination airport, visit the airline’s luggage office or counter right away. Although some airlines may let you file a report within a set period after your arrival, I highly recommend doing so before leaving the airport. When filing the report, you’ll usually need to provide contact information (including a local phone number and lodging details), the baggage tags (take a photo before handing them over if the airline wants to keep them), and details about your luggage, such as its color, type

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It’s big news at The Points Guy when World of Hyatt does anything to grow its reach across the globe — and it’s been happening a lot lately. World of Hyatt is one of our favorite hotel loyalty programs, and an expansion can sometimes create exciting new opportunities to earn and redeem points. At the same time, some of these changes can leave you disappointed when families of hotels aren’t fully integrated with Hyatt’s typically fantastic award chart and list of elite benefits, instead taking more of an affiliation rather than full integration approach when compared to the rest of the brands. So when the hip, fun Standard brand of hotels recently began to join the World of Hyatt family, I was cautiously optimistic. If you aren’t familiar with Standard hotels, know that they are really anything but standard. They are typically located in fun spots such as New York City’s High Line and East Village, the Maldives, London, Bangkok, and Singapore, to name a few. I’m mostly a points and miles girl, so I hadn’t actually stayed at a Standard hotel before this most recent trip, since the brand previously wasn’t part of a major loyalty program. After a