Lost bags cost airport and airlines billions of dollars

Over 42 million bags were lost, wrongly handled, delayed during 2007 it is reported.

The industry as a whole lost over $3 billion which has been attributed to high volumes of passengers and tighter schedules and of course the increase in security measures.

It is estimated that the industry handles around 2 1/4 billion individual baggage items per year.

These figures are based on 2007 numbers, so many people will be running a comparrision next year, to see what impact the Heathrow Terminal 5 baggage problems will have on these numbers.  At it's worse stage, it was reported that over 25 thousand bags were involved at the first week of the new terminal opening.

Source - SITA Baggage Handling Report

Published by: Andy Skinner