Why do airlines still mislay 25M bags a year?
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That sickening moment at the airport when you realise your bag has gone missing…
The airline industry claims it’s getting better at not losing our luggage, partly through improved tracking technology. Image copyright
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Baggage handlers can be independent companies or owned by airlines
Nearly half of all bags that go astray do so because of problems with flight transfers, Sita says. Technology provider Zebra, for example, recently announced that it had supplied 230 mobile computers to baggage handlers at 14 Greek airports just to enable them to scan bag label barcodes.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk