The biggest luggage losers

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LONDON, England (CNN) British Airways has apologized to passengers after a report revealed the airline lost more luggage than all other major European airlines last year.

BA misplaced 23 bags per 1,000 passengers carried in 2006 the worst figure in a list of 24 airlines who are members of the Association of European moncler weste Airlines (AEA).

The UK's Air Transport Users Council (AUC), which released the figures Wednesday, said BA had told the council its performance on bags last year was unacceptable and it apologized to customers.

The AUC also detailed past cases of lost luggage and various airlines' failure to meet the desired service standards.

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Another passenger's bag was lost by an airline and her claim for 116 euros ($155), in line with airline policy, and ($2,962) for the lost items in moncler outlet her luggage was rejected. The airline eventually paid her ($790).

The AUC and AEA baggage figures for 2006 showed that more than 5.6 million bags went missing among the 24 airlines an average of 15.7 bags per <a href="http://www.familiejasper.de/moncleroutlet/">moncler outlet</a> 1,000 passengers.

Among those airlines that had worsethanaverage figures were BA, Lufthansa of Germany, Air France, Italy's Alitalia and KLM of the Netherlands (now merged with Air France).

The AEA stated 85 peuterey percent of misplaced bags were returned to passengers within 48 hours, indicating about one <a href="http://www.madeelodesign.de/monclerjacken/">moncler weste</a> million items took longer than two days to reach their owners and some "never got returned at all."

The AUC also said the actual figure for European carriers could be even worse as some AEA airlines, such as Virgin Atlantic and bmi fail to provide luggage data. Also, budget airlines such as Ryanair and easyJet are not AEA members.

In response to the findings BA said: "We accept that our levels of service have not been up to <a href="http://www.biennalecarrara.it/peutereyoutlet/">peuterey</a> an acceptable standard <a href="http://www.madeelodesign.de/peuterey/">peuterey jacken</a> and we fully apologize peuterey jacken to customers who have been affected by peuterey outlet online shop delayed baggage in the past year.