Anyone who has lost their luggage knows the frustration of having to repurchase all their necessities and starting a new wardrobe from scratch, only to get an insufficient reimbursement.

However, there’s a little-known international regulation that gives flyers more leverage than they think they have.

When travelers get a “final offer” from an airline with a reimbursement that doesn’t even begin to cover the experience they had, they tend to stop there, accept defeat and take the money offered.

But staying organized, citing the rules regarding delayed luggage and refusing the purported payout can lead the airline to increase the reimbursement — nearly tripling the amount.

Bailey Berg, an Alaska-based freelance writer, shared on Fodor’s that her bag never made it onto her flight from

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