In whole, 35,000 baggage and suitcases had been left behind on the airport in current months, about half of which had been from vacationers flying with Air France. The suitcases had been left behind attributable to strikes and disturbances at Charles de Gaulle. In two months, Air France workers, supported by workplace employees, have now reunited most of that baggage with their homeowners. That’s harder for about 9 hundred suitcases. The workers need to open the baggage to seek out out who the proprietor is.
Charles de Gaulle airport has apologized for the course of occasions. It will be an incident. Vacationers whose checked bag doesn’t arrive on the vacation spot inside 21 days can declare compensation from the airline. It may possibly go as much as 1200 euros.
There are additionally issues with suitcases at Schiphol. The precise numbers at that airport are unknown. At its peak, there have been about 8,000 to 10,000 suitcases with out an proprietor. This was partly attributable to an absence of employees, which meant that workers had been unable to get the suitcases on board the plane on time. In response to a contemporary report from Schiphol concerning the variety of orphaned suitcases, there are nonetheless 1500. That was mid-July.
