Around the world in 118 days: one airline passenger’s $3,000 battle to retrieve lost luggage

Marko Bogicevic was travelling to Europe when his bag was lost in transit. He spent four months trying to get his bag back from the airline as it whizzed around the world to get back to Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Marko Bogicevic maintains his ordeal began because he had the gall to share a joke article about yuppies losing bags on flights from Australia to Europe.

It was fateful irony, he’s certain, that led to not one but three bags being lost on a short trip abroad, leaving Bogicevic several thousands dollars in debt and tying him into a tortuous long-distance dispute with Air France.