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AIRLINE BAGGAGE HANDLING has improved around the world in the last year with the rate of mishandling dropping almost 2 per cent, according to a report released today.
The latest SITA Baggage Report shows that 8.83 bags per thousand passengers were mishandled in 2012, down from 8.99 last year – a drop of 53.2 per cent in the last six years. The total number of mishandled bags was 26.04 million, up from 25.8 million in 2011.
However during this time, passenger numbers also increased by 4.5 per cent, which the report said “inevitable increases pressure on airport baggage operations”.
Delayed bags, accounted for 82.9 per cent of all mishandled bags, down from 2011. Damaged or pilfered bags represented 12.9 per cent of mishandled bags, while 4.2 per cent were reported lost or stolen.
The main reason for delayed bags was transfer mishandling at 48 per cent with failure to load following behind at 17 per cent.
SITA said that overall the industry is focusing on improving baggage transfers between flights with a fall of 9 per cent from last year in the proportion of all mishandled bags transfer failures.
Commenting today, CEO of SITA Francesco Violante said effective bag management “plays an important role in improving passenger satisfaction and contributing to the overall passenger experience”.
“With the number of air passengers expected to reach more than 3.6 billion by 2016, we need to continue to work together to improve baggage handling operations,” he said.
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The Healy Rae’s are a national embarrassment.
@carol mullen: Why ? Because they get the job done ? I’m not from the constituency they’re from so they probably won’t do much for me,but why do the people of Kerry keep voting for them
@carol mullen: Only to those whose heads are too posh to push. They respond to their constituents concerns and deliver unlike the Social Democrats and Labour party who run to the hills In case they be held accountable in fairness to the Greens at least they took their place they’ve taken their beating which was unfair given they stepped up and influenced government policy.
@Paul Harte: They claim they get everything done but it is not them at all.
@Gary Kearney: So who gets it done. I understand that they don’t physically go out and do it themselves, but who is getting it done so. If more TDs worked for the constituents like these 2 and just interested in being in photos and actually did what the voters need and want, we’d be a lot better off. Yes, they are well paid for it, but are they getting anything more than the useless TDs who do nothing other than look after themselves.
If there is 1euro in agreement for the people of Kerry, there is another one in it for Healy-Rae’s
Milking the country they are.
Make kilgarvan great again
They play the oldest game in the book. All politics is local and blame it on anybody else, particularly Dublin. Works like a dream.
They complain about schemes and policies the government run and yet make millions out of them.
We can’t laugh at trump when we have e the Healy raes in politics here
Could they be any worse than Mehole and Simson
@Paul Harte: Thankfully our voters rejected being ruled by the Dark rooms of Belfast and those living in a foreign country.
Healy Raes and Mattie Mcgraw are among the few politicians that actually care about doing the job they elected for instead of rattling on about other countries business.
@gregory pym: And Michael Collins isn’t to bad either and the guy in Limerick who’s in with Michael, his name escapes me, is he Donaghue or something like that 0
so the healy raes and mucheal lowery will decide who our next government will be, we’ll its always great to have friends in low places Michael and Simon
These two should not be allowed near politics. They are a national disgrace
In fairness, he cannot say anything else now can he!
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