34,000 traveler requests following à misplaced suitcases were stolen done in one year!
Endless queues, possible delays, connections at a later date. insurance but also the fear of seeing your luggage lost… A trip can be synonymous with a relaxing vacation but also with real stress. the airport. A recent distributed ranking in the United Kingdom notedé airports. It is based on several factors such as Google review scores, the number of reviews mentioning a high level of stress, searches related to lost luggage, punctuality of flights and the number of passengers passing through each airport.
There are several United Kingdom airports in the top 5 but it is the largest London airport, London Heathrow, which gets the lowest enviable first place. Let's not shout “cocorico” too soon since Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport is just around the corner. Paris is also in the top 5. London airport obtains a good rating for traveler satisfaction and displays punctuality. average theft: 65.74%.
But if Heathrow surpasses all the others, it is above all for an astonishing and rather worrying statistic for travelers: the number of requests and claims made by travelers who have not found their belongings their luggage à arrival! In one year, more than 34,000 requests for "lost baggage" have been é made à Heathrow. That's more than 100 per day, all the same…
Despite; punctuality flights of 65.74%, the airport faces an astronomical number of lost luggage. In one year, no less than 34,700 searches were carried out. carried out in connection with suitcases lost elsewhere. Heathrow, almost 100 per day! If the airport management did not wish to do so, react è the distribution of this ranking, we will still remember that 80 million passengers pass through Heathrow airport each year.
One last piece of advice, if you have to transit through Heathrow, which is also valid at any airport elsewhere, be extra vigilant. Identify your baggage clearly, take a photo of its contents and keep any valuable or essential items in the cabin. You will thus put all the chances on your side. to avoid swelling the ranks of victims of the most stressful airport in Europe!