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The aviation industry in 2011 saved a total of 496.9 million euros thanks to the timeliness of checked baggage, which has reached 99.1%, according to SITA, a company specializing in technology solutions for the global air transport industry. A report of this company shows that the rate of mishandled baggage has been reduced by more than half since 2007, notably by 52.4% from 18.88 bags per thousand passengers in 2007 to 8.99 bags per every thousand passengers last year.
“During 2011, even experiencing an increase in the number of passengers, which was increased to 2,870 million, the sector managed to reduce the number of bags to 25.8 million mismanaged. This means 6.5 million fewer bags badly managed that in 2010, the year that number reached 32.3 million, “said Francisco Violante, SITA CEO.
The biggest problems in baggage handling in recent years have occurred in the “baggage in transit”, one that must be transported in several flights, as passengers take more than one connection to get to your destination. 53% of all lost luggage correspond to this typology, representing an annual cost to the industry of 1,039 million euros. Generally, these bags are lost when passengers and their luggage are transferred from one plane to another and often an airline to another, en route to their final destination.
During the past year, which has been reduced the overall rate of mishandled baggage, has also fallen dramatically (45%) the number of bags you really have strayed or been stolen, from 1, 15 million to 640,000. The vast majority of mishandled baggage is returned to its owners within 48 hours, and in 2011 only a few percent, equivalent to 2.47% (640,000 bags), has been lost forever, compared to 3.56 % (1.15 million bags) in 2010.
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