Paper: British Airways Burn Luggage It Can’t Return

Apr 14th, 2008 | By Jared Blank

A report in the Daily Mail says that British Airways will burn the roughly 5,000 pieces of luggage it has not been able to return to its owners. While BA denies this, the company sorting through the baggage says that incineration is definitely an option. BA says they will compensate anyone who does not receive their luggage. Because it’s now a pile of ash.

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Amy April 15th, 2008 6:43 am :
Now isn’t that kinda weird - because over the summer one of the British papers did a big feature on the company that auctioned off all the unclaimed/lost BA luggage at a great profit.
Here it is, it was the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/04/nfly204.xml

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