August 16, 2006
Thousands Of Bags 'Missing' In Airport Chaos
According to Life Style Extra, "thousands of tourists have been left without their suitcases, bags, cellphones and laptops as lost luggage piles up in the Heathrow chaos, following last Thursday's foiled terrorist attempt.
Along with hundreds of cancellations and delays, around 20,000 items of luggage are not with their owners who flew from the world's busiest airport.
The airline blamed the British Airports Authority (BAA) who own Heathrow for the situation, claiming their system could not cope with the extra baggage that was being checked in and they were considering suing the authority for compensation.
But BAA said the airlines were to blame. A spokesman said the company was only responsible for transporting bags between the check-in desks and baggage handling companies that load aircraft. ... "We have seen single mobile phones, keys in plastic bags and soft toys. I doubt there is a system in the world that is designed to cope with these sort of things".
On the BBC, passengers tell of disasters when their bags went astray
Related: Gadgets banned from UK airports following terror alert
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