You have all heard the horror stories, or even experienced yourself the challenges involved when your luggage has been (cough) misplaced...
This follows the news of the amazing figures that British airports loose a reported 2.5 million items of luggage a year...
More than 70,000 items will never be reunited with their owners, with Scots being the main luggage losers...
The 2009 figures, for the 20 biggest British airports, also reveal that the value of the never-returned luggage this year is more than £7 million...
InsureandGo, which compiled the figures, said it estimated that every day nearly 7,000 items of luggage put on or taken off planes are misplaced...
The company also said that 12 per cent of those who claim to have lost luggage between 2006 and 2008 believed it was stolen intentionally, while 54 per cent reckoned it was put on the wrong flight by mistake...
Also, 17 per cent believed that someone else had mistakenly picked up their bags.
As many as 13 per cent of Scottish air travellers suffered from lost or misplaced luggage in the 2006/08 period...
Those suffering least from baggage problems during this period were West Midland travellers, with only 2 per cent having luggage difficulties...
Follow this disturbing report at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6743576/2.5-million-items-of-luggage-lost-of-British-airports-every-year.html
Barticus.
This follows the news of the amazing figures that British airports loose a reported 2.5 million items of luggage a year...
More than 70,000 items will never be reunited with their owners, with Scots being the main luggage losers...
The 2009 figures, for the 20 biggest British airports, also reveal that the value of the never-returned luggage this year is more than £7 million...
InsureandGo, which compiled the figures, said it estimated that every day nearly 7,000 items of luggage put on or taken off planes are misplaced...
The company also said that 12 per cent of those who claim to have lost luggage between 2006 and 2008 believed it was stolen intentionally, while 54 per cent reckoned it was put on the wrong flight by mistake...
Also, 17 per cent believed that someone else had mistakenly picked up their bags.
As many as 13 per cent of Scottish air travellers suffered from lost or misplaced luggage in the 2006/08 period...
Those suffering least from baggage problems during this period were West Midland travellers, with only 2 per cent having luggage difficulties...
Follow this disturbing report at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6743576/2.5-million-items-of-luggage-lost-of-British-airports-every-year.html
Barticus.
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