• A baggage handler informed the BBC they had been afraid to journey in case the airline misplaced their luggage.
• He criticized the journey chaos and stated it is “like a very dangerous snow day, however three months of it.”
• There have been many stories of misplaced baggage in latest months.

A baggage handler at considered one of Europe’s busiest airports stated they had been “petrified” to go on trip due to journey disruptions.

Talking anonymously, the luggage handler informed the BBC they had been afraid to journey in case airways misplaced their baggage.

The bags handler stated they might not wish to be “transferring now” as a result of the probabilities of baggage reaching their vacation spot vacationers’ vacation spot are “very slim.”

Baggage handlers are employed by airways quite than airports, a consultant for London Heathrow informed Insider. The worker interviewed by the BBC had been primarily based within the UK airport for greater than a decade.

They informed the BBC they’d by no means seen journey as disrupted because it at present is.

“This is sort of a actually dangerous snow day, however three months of it,” they stated. “The college holidays shall be worse.”

There have been widespread stories of misplaced baggage in latest months.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that the variety of passengers making claims for misplaced baggage had risen 30% from 2019, in accordance with a European insurance coverage firm, Mapfre SA.

A consultant for London Heathrow informed Insider airways wanted to put money into their floor handlers to repair the bags backlog.

They stated: “The principle constraint on capability at Heathrow is a scarcity of airline floor handlers, the individuals contracted to airways to supply check-in, load, and offload luggage and turnaround plane.”

The spokesperson additionally stated they’d warned some airways months earlier that this capability constraint wanted to be addressed.

Earlier this month, Heathrow put in place a restrict on each day departing passengers. A “passenger cap” can also be in place in different European airports corresponding to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London Gatwick.