Influencer Victoria Paris made a fairly public complaint against Air France for losing her suitcase.
She urged her followers to “wage war” on the airline. Her 1.7million TikTok followers heeded the call, flooding the airline’s social media comments with comments.
On the same day that she mobilized her fans, Air France contacted Paris and let them know she had found her bags and sent them back.
When a airline Losing your luggage usually leads to a week-long process to get your stuff back unless you’re an influencer and you have 1.7 million TikTok-Follower.
In April, 24-year-old Victoria Paris decided to “wage war” on Air France after the airline lost her suitcase on a trip from her home in Los Angeles to Portugal.
“So we make war on them”
After slamming the incident on her social media pages, Paris instructed her followers to ignore the comments airline to flood. “@airfrance lost my bags so we are at war with them. Time to shake up her comments section,” her caption read.
Her nearly two million followers on TikTok and Instagram heeded the call, flooding the company’s comments on social media.
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“Where are Victoria’s bags?? WE WANT ANSWERS,” commented one user. “Stop holding Victoria’s bags hostage,” wrote another.
Meanwhile, Paris complained that without her suitcase she had no clothes for her trip to Lisbon. In a TikTok video, she said that a Apple AirTag showed the baggage was in France while she was in Portugal.
The same day she made the public complaint, Paris posted a follow-up video showing Air France found her bag and sent it to her. “They say bullying doesn’t work, but after thousands of comments on Air France’s Instagram and TikTok (pages), the bags are coming back to mom,” Paris said.
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After the incident was resolved, she asked her followers to leave thank-you notes for the airline, and they followed again. “Thank you for returning our Queen’s luggage <3," one commenter wrote under an Instagram post.
Air France did not respond to Business Insider’s request for comment on the incident. Paris isn’t the first public figure to have tried to publicly pressure an airline to return its lost luggage. Poker player Steve O’Dwyer criticized Lufthansa on Twitter and during a live broadcast after his luggage went missing for 72 hours.
“You messed with the wrong passenger and now I’m determined to badmouth @lufthansa every chance I get,” he wrote on Twitter.
The text was translated from English by Tristan Filges. You read the original here.