Be prepared, and insure all luggage!
When you use an airline, bring only the luggage you can afford to lose.
in the last twelve months, 25 million articles of luggage went astray according to Sita, the IT specialist in the aviation field.
Sita is the creator of a fully automated search system for the aviation industry designed to locate items lost in transit.
Though this may seem a large number, Sita reports that it actually represents a decrease of 23.8 percent, compared to 2008 with only a 2.9 percent drop in passenger numbers.
While congratulation to airliners seem to be in order with 7.8 million suitcases finding their way without incident, 3.9 percent were either stolen or damaged beyond identification.