Heathrow baggage to be buried?

[Gromit]

The British Airports Authority (BAA) is finalising plans to dispose of the 36,000 items of luggage to a landfill site.

Managers have calculated that the cost of returning the items would run into millions and have concluded that buring the luggage is the best and cheapest option.

BAA are worried that the PR disaster could carry on for several more weeks, and the spiraling cost of reuniting bags and passengers is a logistical and financial nightmare.

Under the new plan, the bags will be buried in a landfill site in Essex. Passengers can claim up to �250 compensation, and can claim on the link below.

BAA see this new plan as a speedy way of resolving the backlog problem, while limiting the bad press that the fiasco is generating.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/webforms/ public/en_gb?eId=120001&wfpId=baggage_claim_uk i

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2008/04/01/nheathrow101.xml

An admission of defeat? or A practical solution to a seemingly insurmountable problem?

[factor-fiction]

Very good. What date is it?

[bigmamma]

No , didn't fool me gromit :-) x

[vehelpfulguy]

Or maybe they could leave them in a big pile in the middle of Terminal 5 and let people steal them.

That way they get rid of them, and dont have to pay the cost of burying them.

I bet it will take till NEXT April the 1st to sort out the problem !.

[sp1214]

What and do those courier firms out of pots of cash