Originally Posted by
johan rebel
Luchtvaartnieuws reports that KLM has sent office workers to Schiphol to help deal with a backlog of thousands of bags.
De Telegraaf reports (with pictures to prove it) that bags were dumped in big piles at various insecure locations all over the airport, such as under bridges.
The mess was apparently the result of some unspecified "computer failure". "Tens of thousands" of bags allegedly did not make it to their destination as scheduled.
Johan
This makes me nervous. I'm connecting in AMS Thursday on my way to a hiking trip, and I really don't want to fly in my hiking boots from the US.
Unfortunately I dealt with a similar baggage system breakdown a few years ago that resulted in thousands of connecting bags not making their onward flight. Bags that originated in AMS were fine. The most annoying thing was no announcement from KLM - nothing on the plane and nothing at the destination. They let us all uselessly stand around the baggage carousal for 45 minutes before we gradually gave up and went to file a claim.