BA admits 19,000 bags in storage at Heathrow
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The apology came after the Aviation minister Jim Fitzpatrick criticised the airline and said it will take up to a week to return some 28,000 bags placed in temporary storage. Mr Fitzpatrick said the opening of the £4.3bn terminal had fallen "well short of expectations".
BA was forced to cancel a further 54 flights at T5 yesterday, with another 50 due for cancellation today. Mr Walsh said: "We've got about 19,000 bags. Of those, we are currently processing 5,000 that we hope to start dispatching to customers. So we are getting bags back.
"But this is a labour-intensive process because we're not using the T5 baggage system to what we call reflight these bags. We're doing this manually and clearly it will take time."
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