Baggage theft

Baggage theft has been rife at this airport for some time and yet little seems to have been done about it. Very few of my travelling friends have NOT lost something there. The theft has included not only baggage that disappears completely but also baggage that is unlocked and unstrapped. Some contents are removed, (often just a few small things, presumably to minimise reporting) and the case is then re-locked and re-strapped.

I have the impression that the airlines are doing little about this, except shrugging shoulders and agreeing that the situation is bad. It is probably easier for them to pay up their few hundred dollars liability than to follow it up.

The numbers of such instances (judging from the airline incident reference numbers) must be very condiderable - many per day. It is impossible for theft on this scale to go unnoticed we can only conclude that the handling company is unconcerned by it. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that either there are no surveillance cameras in the area or those that watch them are part of the ring.

There seems little that I, an airport user, can do about it except write notes like this. And, of course, never book luggage through - as that is when the theft seems to happen.