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Blue Ribbon Bags Is the simple solution to lost baggage. For a $5 service fee, Blue Ribbon Bags will spend the first 96 hours of your bag's delay, tracking it down and doing what they do best to get it back to you. The company has the ears of the correct people at every airline. They can make miracles happen.
As the representatives at Blue Ribbon Bags are working to track down your bags, they will stay in contact with clients, notifying them every time there is an update to their file as it happens. If a customer becomes impatient, they can always go to the website at and see all the notes on their file at any time. And that isn't even the best part: If they can't get their bags back within 96 hours, they will immediately qualify for payment.
Blue Ribbon Bags will send clients a check or a wire transfer for $1,000, per bag, free and clear. There is no proof or receipts necessary to receive the money. It makes no difference what was actually in your bag, you are getting the same $1000 per bag no matter what. If your bag is returned to you after the 96-hour period, at any time, whether it's one hour or two days later, you get to keep the bag and the money. It is a win-win situation for everyone and solves what has been a very frustrating problem for many people, for just $5.
Blue Ribbon Bags' service covers every flight, everywhere in the world, and the fee is per person, per PNR, no matter how many legs to the PNR. Blue Ribbon Bags is committed to giving the traveler the best end of the deal in every direction.
Is $1,000 not enough? For $7.50 the payment will be $1,500 and for $10.00 the payment for lost bags that remain lost after 96 hours will be $2,000 per bag. In addition, Blue Ribbon Bags pays a 20 percent commission to travel agents on every sale. One dollar may not sound like a lot, but if you got $1 for every airline ticket you sold, it could become a substantial number.
Travel agents can also consider this as an included perk, adding $5 to your service fee and including this service in every ticket you book. Certainly, when booking large groups or big family vacations, adding $5 per person to the cost will not raise any eyebrows. It could be the best thing you ever did for them.
Blue Ribbon Bags has already launched an app in the Sabre red app store, which is a free download. This puts the ability to buy the service on the side of your GDS booking screen and only takes three clicks to actually fulfill the service. It's very easy. Apps for Travelport's Apollo and Galileo are planned within the next couple of weeks and Worldspan is not far behind.
"Our Red App will allow travel agents to seamlessly purchase Blue Ribbon Bags service on behalf of their clients," says Gabriel Menkin, CEO of Blue Ribbon Bags. "A few clicks allow travel agents to populate all pertinent client and agent information in order obtain coverage. We want this to be as simple as possible, for both the agent and the client."
SOURCE: Blue Ribbon Bags press release
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