Over 500 bags a day are being lost at Dublin Airport with mounting problems causing the normal level of loss to increase by 900%, it is claimed.
Angry passengers are waiting several hours for luggage and it is spiralling out of control with bar code readers not working, travel experts say.
One said yesterday on RTE Radio One that 50 bags a day would be lost normally, but the figure now tops 500 – meaning an increase of 900%.