ludicrous luggage losses

33 million pieces of luggage were lost in the year 2008 – 90.000 per day!
When you travel via airplane, there’s a chance 1.6% to lose your baggage.
Try to avoid connecting flights. Your luggage will not be transferred successfully in over 40% of the flights.
If you happen to lose your luggage (1.6%, as mentioned above), the chance of never ever seeing it again is 15% (adding up to a chance of 0.24% of losing your luggage completely).
If that happens, and you are lucky, you’ll get reimbursed up to the sum of 1.100€.

July 28th, 2009

2 Responses to “ludicrous luggage losses”

Basti
July 29th, 2009 at 12:35

I can’t imagine how lucky I have been so far! I’m always using connecting flights, there’s just no other way. And most of the time I doubt that 1100 Euro would cover what I usually have in my suitcase… Scary! Makes me want to go and get some additional insurance!
E.
July 29th, 2009 at 18:03

As you know Iggy flies very regularly; I wouldn’t say he loses his luggage every second time, but it happened quite often so far. As far as I know he always got it back though, they usually sent it via express mail to our adress a few days later.

I’m not that much of a flyer, so my personal experience really covers too few N :)