Travel light, or without luggage at all, might be the go - if this report on TravelMole is accurate:
"A total of 42.4 million bags were mishandled or delayed in 2007 by airports and airlines last year, new figures show.
The air transport industry lost $3.8 billion because of growing pressures on baggage management linked to passenger volumes, tight aircraft turnaround times, and heightened security measures.
The industry is estimated to handle around 2.25 billion pieces of checked baggage every year.
The single largest cause of baggage delay was in transfer baggage mishandling at 49%, down from 61% in 2005.
This was followed by ticketing error/ passenger bag switch/ security/ other, 14%; failure to load, 16%; space-weight restriction, 5%; loading/offloading error, 5%; tagging errors, 3%; and arrival station mishandling, 8%.
The statistics come from SITA, the IT provider which tracks passenger baggage worldwide for the air transport industry."
"A total of 42.4 million bags were mishandled or delayed in 2007 by airports and airlines last year, new figures show.
The air transport industry lost $3.8 billion because of growing pressures on baggage management linked to passenger volumes, tight aircraft turnaround times, and heightened security measures.
The industry is estimated to handle around 2.25 billion pieces of checked baggage every year.
The single largest cause of baggage delay was in transfer baggage mishandling at 49%, down from 61% in 2005.
This was followed by ticketing error/ passenger bag switch/ security/ other, 14%; failure to load, 16%; space-weight restriction, 5%; loading/offloading error, 5%; tagging errors, 3%; and arrival station mishandling, 8%.
The statistics come from SITA, the IT provider which tracks passenger baggage worldwide for the air transport industry."
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If you let me have your mailing address I will send you a set of globalbagtags to try out.
Regards
Chris