About 25 million bags went missing in the world’s airports in 2009.
Just over half of these bags, 52 per cent, were misplaced during aircraft transfers, while another 16 per cent did not arrive at the destination on time as they were not loaded on planes, luggage tracking data from electronics group SITA showed.
Most of the missing luggage was traced and returned within 48 hours. But 3.4 per cent – 850,000 items – remained unclaimed or was stolen.
The figures were an improvement of 23.8 per cent on the previous year, when 32.8 million bags failed to arrive on time.
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