From BBC NEWS
Heathrow Airport is still trying to clear a backlog of thousands of bags following last week’s terror alerts.
Despite extra staff being brought in, the system is “under considerable strain”, with about 23,000 bags handled a day, British Airways (BA) said…
BA said could be days before the owners were reunited with their baggage.
Indeed. 36 hours after I landed at Seattle, minus my bag, the WorldTracer system reports that it is still being traced:
Most of the contents of the bag would be easy to replace – clothing (including a bunch of geek t-shirts), toiletries, a couple of books. There’s a first edition of my mother’s book about the Windscale accident, and the charging cradle for my digital camera. (That explains why I haven’t published some of the photos I took.) And I bought my first ever Oasis album; I was browsing round Tesco’s in Abingdon, looking (unsuccessfully) for noise-cancelling headphones for Lorna, and I came across the double CD “best of” Oasis for £5. Easy come, easy go. At least I still have the bottle of single cask 16 year Laphroiag which I bought at Heathrow…