A Dutch airline says no piece of luggage can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. KLM has been fined $238,000 by a court in the Philippines for losing a passenger's bag - a KLM record.

The incident occurred eight years ago when the passenger was going from Manila to Kazakhstan to give a lecture at a World Health Organization conference. He wore jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers at the lecture because his luggage was lost, and he claims that damaged his reputation.

A KLM spokesman says the airline doesn't agree with the court ruling that it was responsible because other airlines were involved. t also said that's a "tremendous amount of money" for a lost bag.