Travellers are finding it hard to come to terms with baggage recovery in British Airway flight. The airway’s is misplacing luggage in various routes causing frustration, anguish and loss among British Airway passengers.
The world famous musician Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s 45 year old sarod had also also been misplaced in a British Airway flight from Heathrow to New Delhi. The musician had gone to London for a music concert. On his way back the maestro boarded a British Airway flight to Delhi where he found his instrument missing. He was assured of a speedy recovery by the airline officials. However, the musician’s sarod was recovered by the airlines and delivered to him. The British Airways had damaged his sarod in 1997 but the maestro is happy to be reunited with his sarod once more.
The airline is facing problems with its baggage system in terminal 5. Some passengers are left without change of clothes as all their baggage has gone missing.
A television executive travelling from Brussels to Glasgow over the weekend found her luggage missing upon arrival. She hasn’t still found her luggage. She was not alone. There were several others who are undergoing the same fate of missing luggage.
According to the British Airway , the problem began on Thursday of last week, 26.06.14 when a technical failure knocked out the baggage processing system at Heathrow Airport.
The airlines are advising people to carry their essential items in their hand luggage for precautionary measures.
The airline assures its ‘victims’ that their baggage is not lost; it has merely “missed its flight.”
It is tough for business travellers who are not going on shopping sprees or holidays and are going to attend serious business. Thanks to the courtesy of British Airway, the first thing that these professionals will need to do is to shop for suitable clothes in their hard pressed time schedules to attend business meets. How they will manage their time is definitely not the airline’s concern.
To expedite the process of returning luggage, the airline is transporting bags by road. And just a friendly advise to British Airways passengers , next time you decide to board a British Airway flight be sure to travel with larger carry-on bags!
