Passenger claims airlines lost luggage containing $7K in belongings: It had everything I owned

Her life was on the air-line.A freelance content creator says she’s thousands of dollars poorer after claiming an airline lost a bag containing nearly all of her belongings while she was relocating to another country.“I was quite stressed because it had everything I owned,” Bianca Beemer told CTV News.The 30-year-old influencer, who regularly shares travel content on TikTok and Instagram, had been moving from Toronto, Canada, to Berlin, Germany, in August 2024.To prep for her new life, she whittled decades-worth of possessions into a manageable chunk that she crammed into two bags — a carry-on suitcase and her boyfriend’s hockey bag, which she checked at the airport.The carry-on was packed with camera equipment and other tools of her trade, while the duffel contained mostly sentimental items, including a scarf she inherited from her grandma who passed away from COVID.The total value of her possessions: around $7,000.Upon arrival at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Beemer was told she’d have to check the hockey bag at a special kiosk because it weighed 75 pounds.“When I went to check my oversized bag, they asked me to pay in cash, which I thought was kind of bizarre,” claimed the influencer, who said she ended up forking over $277.She then embarked on her multistop jaunt, first flying with Condor Airlines to Frankfurt and then hopping on a Lufthansa flight for the last leg to Berlin.Unfortunately, when Beemer arrived a her final destination, she discovered that her bags hadn’t followed along.Airport employees reportedly told her it was still in Frankfurt, whereupon the Canuck thought she’d have to turn right around and “go home.”“I was still quite optimistic that my bag would show up because why wouldn’t my bag show up?” Beemer said, despite the devastating realization.Fast forward five months — and her duffel has yet to surface.Since the disappearance, Beemer has engaged in hundreds of interactions with Lufthansa and Condor, sh...