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For every 1000 passengers on the British carrier, 23 bags went astray the worst performance of the 24 airlines who are members of the Association of European Airlines, Britain's Air Transport Users Council said today. Across all the airlines, around 5.6 million bags went missing in 2006, an average of 15.7 bags per 1000 passengers, the Associated Press said.If that doesn't http://www.toptechmagazine.com/ bad enough, The council said overall European figure could be much worse, because some airlines such as Virgin Atlantic Airways do not provide luggage data and budget airlines such as Ryanair Holdings and easyJet are not members of the Association of European airlines.Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. "We can only speculate on what the total might be for all airlines worldwide," said AUC chairman Tina Tietjen."Complaints to the council show that instances of mishandled baggage can cause passengers considerable stress, inconvenience and expense," she said."They also show that passengers louis vuitton outlet online struggle to get reasonable redress from airlines after the event."BA's operations director Geoff Want said that the airline was dealing with a 25 per cent increase in the number of checked in bags at Heathrow since last August's terror threat. "The volumes of hold baggage going through Heathrow, the change in security procedures and some baggage system failures within Terminal 4 has not louis vuitton bags sale uk our performance, but we accept that overall the levels of service we offered to our customers has not been up to an acceptable standard," Mr Want said.BA worst airline for losing bags in Europe As millions of passengers prepare to leave Britain for one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year, BA's record was highlighted in a survey by the Association of European Airlines.It showed that BA mislaid 23 bags per 1,000 passengers last year, two more than the carrier in second place, TAP Air Portugal and nearly five more than Lufthansa.A BA spokesman admitted that its performance had not been acceptable, but said the problems had been triggered by a louis vuitton women bags uk per cent rise in the number of bags being checked into the hold after curbs were imposed on the amount of luggage passengers could take on board in August. Its difficulties were exacerbated by the fog which engulfed Heathrow in the days leading up to Christmas.According to the Air Transport Users Council, the consumer watchdog, 5.6 million bags were "mishandled" last year by 24 European carriers. The list does not include a number of nofrills airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair.While 85 per cent of "mishandled" bags are normally reunited with their owners within 48 hours, more than a million take more than two days to be returned and some are never found. http://www.google.com/
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