Heathrow Luggage Failure Latest

As a travel writer I have ended up in the middle of this major luggage handling failure at London’s Heathrow Terminal 5 last June.

A massive luggage fault at T5 Heathrow as dozens of flights left without passengers hold baggage.

Many international flights were certainly affected at the same time too.

There were suitcases all over the check-in area at T5.

Latest Luggage Failure At Heathrow

I checked in my suitcase some 7 hours before my flight left for Inverness yet it still did not turn up in Scotland.

See pictures of the situation at Heathrow on that Friday.

My baggage has been on a mystery excursion of its own!

This is yet again another major baggage outage at London’s principle airport.

Personally spending time in the Highlands with little more than the clothes I travelled in is not a great situation.

There was certainly a lack of info coming from both BA and Heathrow.

I know colleagues who have been also affected in places like the US,  Europe and here in the UK thousands of passengers!

Over recent times there has been a series of luggage handling problems at the airport.  Some reported July 2025 also July 2022.

It is thought that British Airways will be demanding compensation from Heathrow over this issue.  Which could run into 10 millions of pounds.

Personally I have been without my bag for 6 days. It was checked-in on Friday 15th May at around 1pm and I have not seen it since then.

Communication with the airline British Airways and their couriers has not been ideal.

British Airways Statement

This statement was issued to me 5 days after my luggage was being held at Heathrow: “While Heathrow Airport’s baggage system is back up and running, some customers who travelled on Friday remain without their bags due to the system’s instability as delayed bags are loaded in. Heathrow Airport owns and manages the baggage system.  And we’ve been working closely with their engineers as they fix these issues. We’re very sorry to our customers for the inconvenience caused.  Our teams are working round the clock to get customers’ luggage to them as quickly as possible.”

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Although they were willing to pay for some expenses. Like some items of clothing.  Mind you after we booked into the airport hotel hoping that in the morning we could perhaps collect our suitcase at Inverness and thus continue our trip to the Highlands. Never expecting that it would be week before we would be reunited, the day before our return flight to London!

However, this they were unhappy to pay for and so in return I will be unhappy to book with British Airways ever again!