Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why do airlines still mislay 25 million bags
a year?
Have you been the last arriving passenger
waiting for your checked-in bags beside the luggage carousel in an airport?
Being the last is still much better than being the one to claim lost luggage.
Think of the hassles you need to deal with after a long flight and
inconvenience you’ll need to endure until you get the luggage. Though the total
number of baggage mishandling has been reduced dramatically for the last
decade, there still were nearly 25 million bags, out of 4.3 billion in total, went
astray in 2018. Nearly half of those mislead or lost bags missed their
connecting flights. That happens. When a flight is delayed and you have to rush
in the terminal building to catch your connecting flight, your luggage could still
be sitting in the baggage cart. In other cases, your baggage might have been misplaced
by handlers in either departing or connecting airport or picked up by someone
else. Though you can track your own baggage with an app by placing a device
that transmits its location, that won’t prevent your baggage from being misled.
By the way, there also are thousands of
pieces of unclaimed luggage each year. Do you know where their destinations are?
Enjoy reading the article and learn how your
baggage is being handled while you are sipping wine of taking a nap on the
flight.
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