It was an extended, long journey home.
4 years after Oregon resident April Gavin took a business trip to Chicago, where United Airlines lost her luggage, her itinerant suitcase surfaced — in Honduras.
Gavin recounted the saga, which isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement for United Airlines’ baggage services, on TikTok, where she goes by the handle @aprildgavin.
“Okay, so, 4 years ago, August 4 of 2018, I went on a business trip,” she said in a video that has nearly 214,000 views. “And while I used to be on that business trip — I went to Chicago, I live in Oregon —, on the way in which home, United Airlines lost my luggage.”
She said she tried for “months and months” to get well her bag however the airline told her they’d “no idea” where it was. Until this month — when her phone rang with an update.
“Rapidly, I get a phone call from Houston, Texas, saying that they found my luggage, and I used to be confused,” she said, adding that the airline “thought it was a typo that it had been missing for 4 years.
“It was in Honduras. And who knows where else it went. However it got here from Honduras. Went to Houston, Texas.”
It’s unclear what form of adventures the suitcase had while on the lam, but Gavin said it was brand recent when she traveled and now had some wear and tear on it.
She was also understandably skittish about opening it because she has “an enormous phobia of bugs” so let it sit on her porch for per week.
After mustering up her courage, she unzipped the black-and-white polka-dotted suitcase and located her belongings, including clothes, jewelry, her prescription glasses, a laptop charger, a blowdryer and garments that she’d bought for her daughters while she was on her business trip.
“It’s like Christmas opening up all my stuff,” she joked, adding, “I cannot imagine that this suitcase has been traveling around for 4 years, went to Honduras, finally made it back to me, and it looks like almost every little thing continues to be in it. So, thanks United.”
On commenter joked, “That suitcase has traveled more in those 4 years than I actually have in my life,” while one other noted, “I began and graduated from college in that point! Wild.”
United Airlines didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request for comment.
In a follow-up video, Gavin said she had been reimbursed an amount between $1,250 and $1,700 by United, which ultimately got to the underside of the slip-up: the suitcase had never been scanned when she dropped it off in Chicago at the luggage check.
“In order that’s why they were having a lot trouble finding it,” she said.
A rep from United Airlines said, “We’re more than happy to resolve this case in spite of everything this time.”