Aena explains that these problems are not attributable to the airlines, but to the ‘handling’ companies, responsible for the transfer of luggage
They also do not clarify if it was a specific problem with a company
The baggage claim area of T-2 of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport was converted on Sunday night in a “forest of suitcases”, with hundreds of luggage from different national and international flights stranded, causing confusion among the passengers.
“I arrived at about ten o’clock at night from a flight from Vigo and it was chaos, there were suitcases everywhere and many people looking for theirs,” says Jorge F., who witnessed the scene upon landing in Madrid.
In the images he took, it can be seen how there are suitcases scattered throughout many spaces in the room on the conveyor belts and passengers trying to find theirs. on the labels From the packages it could be seen that they came from different destinations, such as Milan or Frankfurt.
Aena sources explain that these problems are not attributable to the airlines, but to the companies of ‘handling‘, who are responsible for the transfer of luggage. They also do not clarify if it was a specific problem with a company.
Precisely this weekend the departure operation began, and the airlines executed close to 24,600 flights at Spanish airports in the Aena network
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According to data provided by Aena, Friday was the day with the most movements, with 6,334 operations scheduled, followed by Saturday (6,160) and Sunday (6,159), while, for Monday, 5,947 flights were scheduled.
The airport with the highest number of scheduled flights it is that of Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 3,938, 17% less than three years ago -the last pre-pandemic summer-, followed by that of Palma de Mallorca, which this year, with 3,679 operations, surpasses that of Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 3,531.