Missing luggage haunts major airports

They are places where everyone would love to be. People use them to travel to different places locally, regionally and internationally for various reasons. Business people, very important persons (VIPs) such as presidents and ministers use the airports.

Also transported are the countries valuable resources such as minerals in the case of Botswana. Everyday there are a lot of different airliners dropping out and taking off passengers to different destinations carrying luggage. But the services at most airports leave much to be desired due to many problems that need to be solved before they get out of hand.

Misplacing, loss of passenger baggage and theft of valuables have become the order of the day. The good news is that these problems are not unique to Botswana but are common in other countries such as South Africa, Italy and United Kingdom (UK). But at the end of the day, the ball is squarely in airport managements' court. Just recently, passengers using South African Express Airways (SAEA) and Air Botswana (AB) were struggling in ensuring that passengers luggage did reach their owners after they had been piling up at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. The problem was because of a breakdown in the conveyer-belt, which transports luggage into the aircraft, forcing the process to be done manually, hence the delay in transferring passengers' luggage.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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