Why do airport lose so much luggage

Thousands of items of items of luggage are lost every single day. But how is it that so many pieces of luggage go missing?

You may have thought that they would have worked out by now exactly why so many pieces of luggage go missing. I mean, how difficult would it really be for airlines to simply attach RFID tags or electronic readers or even miniature GPS devices that are collected afterwards. Losing luggage is after all the biggest problem that passengers face. It's even worse that delayed flights of cancellations which can be swiftly reminded, but lost luggage can ruin holidays, especially when it never shows up after flights from Portland to Las Vegas.

But dig a little deeper and you'll begin to understand exactly why it is obvious that luggage should go missing with such scary regularity. After all, around the world every day millions of pieces of luggage get shipped from point a to point b. That almost every piece of luggage gets put on the correct wagons to go to the plane, gets put on the right plane, and comes out on the other side at the right time is incredible. We shouldn't focus on how we lose so much luggage but appreciate that flights from Los Angeles to Melbourne manage every single day to get our luggage to exactly where it needs to be.

Sure it could be improved. Flights from Chicago to Vancouver could have specific electronic devices that scan every single piece of luggage. Or it could be a nationwide single label that each person attaches to each suitcase that they own. Then people will always know where to ship it back to and more importantly which airline is responsible for losing it in the first place, and who needs to ship it back to the customer.