Avoid black suitcases: the airport in Germany gives passengers insane tips for their luggage

Created: 2022-07-23 05:03

By: Momir Takac

Frankfurt Airport advises passengers to refrain from black suitcases and to label their luggage with the address.

That should make the police shake their heads.

Frankfurt/Main – Things are not going well at most German airports at the moment: Flights are being canceled due to a lack of staff, long queues are forming at the security checkpoints, and suitcases are arriving late at their destination.

Travel chaos at Frankfurt Airport: 4,000 jobs cut during Corona

All of these problems are consequences of the corona pandemic, as a result of which airport operators and airlines have cut jobs.

Holidaymakers are now feeling the consequences during the main holiday season.

The airport in Frankfurt is also affected by the travel chaos.

The grievances there are homemade.

Because of Corona, the operator Fraport had cut around 4,000 jobs.

Although a thousand people are to be hired again in the areas of "aircraft and baggage handling" by the end of the year, there is now an urgent shortage of personnel.

Frankfurt Airport advises travelers to provide their suitcases with address data - and contradicts the police

The situation is apparently particularly precarious when it comes to handling suitcases.

According to the

, 2,000 stranded suitcases are still stored in a secret hall.

So that the chaos doesn't get any bigger than it already is, Frankfurt Airport is asking passengers for help and giving insane tips.

Stranded suitcases at the airport in Frankfurt.

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For example, Fraport published a “suitcase know-how” on its website.

A request from the airport still sounds harmless: Waiting times at the baggage carousel should be taken into account when organizing the journey home.

And: In the evening hours, "there could be considerable delays in baggage claim." In addition to the suitcase chaos, flight passengers are threatened with further trouble: At Lufthansa, a pilot strike is still possible in the summer.

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Travel chaos in Frankfurt: the airport would like fewer black suitcases

But things get adventurous when it comes to “General tips for luggage”.

Thomas Kirner, Head of Passenger Communications at Fraport AG, advises travelers to “only carry one piece of hand luggage” and generally reduce their luggage.

The airport recommends providing suitcases with your own address data in order to be able to allocate them more easily and quickly.

The police constantly point out not to do this, as it opens the floodgates to burglars and thieves.

summarizes the situation in Cologne and Düsseldorf

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After all, Fraport is trying to make the passengers partly responsible for the suitcase chaos.

"Many travel with a black trolley case - that makes identification very time-consuming," Kirner notes.

Luggage should rather be individualized with a “sticker, a colorful luggage strap, a sign stuck on with fabric tape, suitcase covers or even a piece of gift ribbon on the handle”.

A Lufthansa plane recently had to land again shortly after take-off in Frankfurt.