New Study Shows The Airlines That Are Most Likely To Lose Your Luggage - Forbes

Waiting for your luggage to pop out of the baggage carousel may arguably be the most stressful part of a long trip. Will your luggage still be intact? Will it have been searched? Will it even show up at all? Most frequent flyers opt to forego checking a bag entirely due to the inconvenience and risk—but sometimes fitting all your necessities into a carry on just isn’t feasible and checking a bag is a necessary risk.

Interestingly though, while many of us joke about damaged luggage or share cautionary tales of friends who lost all their valuables when their baggage was misplaced, new research suggests that just 850,000 bags were reportedly “handled a bit more than incorrectly” out of the 200 million bags that were boarded in 2020—that’s only around a 0.4 percent chance of your checked luggage being mishandled.

And while that number seems significantly lower than expected, it’s important to remember that there are a couple of airlines who rank lower than average. American Airlines had the worst rating, clocking in at 0.597 percent. While Envoy Air ranked second-to-worst at 0.587 percent.

On the other hand, Allegiant Air came in top place for the second year in a row in terms of best luggage handling with just 0.15 percent of luggage being mishandled. Other airlines that topped the list included Southwest and Hawaiian.

“Every year, we at LuggageHero create a report showcasing mishandled luggage by the US airlines, and 2020, despite the COVID-19 situation, would be no different. Of course, there was a lot less travel in 2020 than 2019, and that shows in the lost luggage numbers,” LuggageHero shared in a statement on its website. “Compared to the previous year, air traffic has been reduced significantly, and we can see that reflected in the lower number of bags mishandled in 2020 as compared to 2019.”

Keep in mind that “mishandled baggage” in this case is defined as luggage being lost, delayed, damaged, or searched through by airport security or otherwise. Given these stats, we’re inclined to risk checking our bags a little more frequently—at least while flying short haul domestic flights.

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