Having stood in a queue for an hour to register his details, he was told that the bags would arrive the following day.
Of course, there was no phone call about his bags and when he tried to log on to the online system with the details he had been given - no reference, invalid.
His Apple AirTags showed no movement from the terminal at Edinburgh Airport.
Days later, now in Dublin and about to head to London then on to Copenhagen he made the decision to book a new flight to Edinburgh from Dublin and then a train from Edinburgh to London.
An epic journey but in the end he got his bags.
Likely his bags would have taken a month to get to him back in the USA meanwhile he had already had to buy new equipment such as chargers, it's difficult in Dublin to find a Hasselblad charger or indeed a genuine Sony camera charger, and he borrowed a tripod from me.
Also every day there are stories of people who were not able to make it at all due to cancellations, diversions and long delays.
