Newsstand - Quieter airports mean luggage is lost less often

http://www.theprovince.com/Travel/Quieter+airports+mean+luggage+lost+less+often/1554129/story.html

The world's economic slowdown has reduced your odds of losing a bag the next time you fly, an industry group says.
SITA, a network of airlines, airports, freight companies and computer reservation systems, reports that 10 million fewer checked bags were mishandled in 2008 than the year before and estimated that the improvement saved airlines $800 million over the year.

I'll believe it when I see it.

10 million fewer checked bags were mishandled in 2008

By total coincidence, 10 million fewer bags were checked in 2008? :D

This part is still disturbing : "overall mishandling rate last year was 14.3 bags per 1000 passengers worldwide." Is this per pax or per bag checked? Every pax does not check a bag. 1.43% "failure" rate of a basic airline customer service? Way to high to be acceptable. Even for Aeroflot :td: