More luggage being lost by airlines

A British consumer air travel group says airlines are losing more bags as passenger numbers rise.

Britain's Air Transport Users Council said yesterday that more than 40 million bags were misplaced by airlines in 2007.

Of those more than 1 million pieces of luggage were irretrievably lost.

The council said the annual number of mishandled bags could be as high as 70 million by 2019.