Flight 508 from Chicago (MDW) to Phoenix (PHX) arrived at 7:29 pm on Monday, May 27th at Gate C12 at Phoenix (PHX). I don't usually post on the forum (this is actually my first time) but I feel the need to do so because of the experience that I've had this past week during my travel from Pittsburgh to Oregon. Long story short, I left my iPad on flight 508 from Chicago to Phoenix in the front seat of the pocket when I got off. However, I didn't leave it there by accident, but because I thought I would be getting back on the same flight due to the miscommunication that occurred via an announcement made by the attendant. The transfer flight was arranged the last minute (because of multiple delays and the airline decided to put me on a flight that takes 3 extra stops instead of 1) so I had to rush to the next gate, which was when I realized I left the iPad on the previous flight. I couldn't go back to the previous gate because the next flight was about it leave, so I made the online lost and found request claim form on the spot and submitted it. It is now Saturday and this incident happened this past Monday, and I am shocked that the item has not been recovered yet, even though I've provided a very detailed description of the item along with the serial number of the device (I've also set the find my iPhone alert to "lost" so whenever it connects to the internet it should pop up and make a noise.). When I booked this flight, I did it because my friend HIGHLY recommended it, but my experience so far (flight delays and how the airline rearranged flights were taken care of, along with this current situation of STILL not being able to find an iPad) with the Southwest airline made me lose my faith in the airline altogether. But most importantly, this device contains information that I need for my work ASAP and I feel like the airline is not even putting the effort to find this device - I've only been "status-updated", which is just an automatic email sent by a machine; it would be nice to have some sort of detailed info on what is current situation is. Thanks for reading this and I hope I get some help from this forum. If any of you guys (customers) had a similar experience, please comment below so we could at least talk about this issue as a community and not just wait for the automatic-status-update-emails. Item report number is 1556452.
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