With millions of travelers taking to the skies every day, there is bound to be some undelivered baggage. While airlines have significantly reduced the number of mishandled bags over the past two decades, less than 0.03% of all checked luggage is unable to be reunited with its owner after a minimum of three months.
Many of those bags then end up at a small town in Alabama. How much luggage is lost? According to the SITA Global Baggage report, 36.1 million bags were mishandled worldwide in 2023.
Out of the 5.2 billion passengers considered in the report, this represents a mishandling rate of 6.9 bags per thousand passengers, down from 7.
6 the year prior. Overall, baggage mishandling is decreasing significantly, thanks in part to new technology and operations improvements. Reportable incidents were down 23% from the 46.
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In the United States, the Department of Transportation has been tracking lost luggage since 1990. According to Forbes , The mishandled bag situation used to be much worse. When tracking began in 1990, the rate of mishandled bags was 6.
73 per 1000 passengers. By 2018, that number had fallen to 2.84 bags per 1000, even though passenger numbers doubled.
Beginning in 2019, US airlines began reporting the total number of enplaned and mishandl.
