Just Intresting Stories - Sandkat. Stray Baggage!!

Ever lost your luggage on-route?

Loss of luggage during air travel is definately not infrequent.  It has been estimated that around 42 million bags  go missing annually, this figure increases by approximately 25% per year as air travel increases.  Most bags are delivered back to their owners within 48 hours but 1 in every 2000 customers (or 3%) will never see their baggage again! 
Lost baggage costs the airlines around 4 billion dollars per year.  Amongst some of the causes that airlines quote are : congestion due to increasing numbers of passengers, tight turnaround times, mishandling of baggage and tagging errors.