More bags are being lost at airports due to knock-on effects from other areas.
That's according to travel expert Eoghan Corry, following a number complaints around disordered and missing baggage at Dublin Airport.
35 mins to get off the plane @DublinAirport as no staff to depart passengers then peoples missing luggage sprawled all over the terminal. What is going on? #summermaddness pic.twitter.com/Cj9QNGAMhc
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Eoghan told Lunchtime Live this is happening in several other places.
"Unfortunately it's being replicated - social media is full of the photographs.
"A lot of baggage, a lot of valuable stuff - musical instruments, things like that, are left in Dublin Airport.
"[This is] because of a general breakdown in the systems, with flights being re-routed, flights being cancelled - and the same staffing issues.
"Everybody scaling down during COVID, scaling back up again, that caused the well-publicised security queue meltdown in Dublin Airport.
"The overall situation with baggage is that more of it is being lost, and more flights are being rescheduled and cancelled."
Eoghan says airlines, such as British Airways, are being hardest hit.
"Because of staffing issues and certification issues, they've had to cancel a good deal of their summer schedule.
"A lot of the long-haul flights that were to go in particular directions have been re-routed.
"Canada... has had a particular problem, particularly Toronto Airport - with security queues way in excess of what Dublin's worst queues were.
"And the knock-on of a flight being delayed through security queues... is not just the passenger being rescheduled, it's also the tracking and the handling of all the bags".
And he says a lot of the systems are automated, through the scanning of luggage barcodes.
"All very well when the system's running efficiently, but even when the system is running efficiently Aer Lingus would lose 50 bags a day.
"It's the nature of the business handling that number of bags".
