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For sale at auction Heathrow is suffering a continuing crisis because of a chronic shortage of handlers and creaking infrastructure.Last month this led to a backlog of up to 40, 000 bags. Ba has even started trucking unclaimed luggage to milan for sorting.Figures released this week revealed that the national carrier is losing more bags than any other major european airline, with more than 300, 000 failing to turn up on carousels at heathrow between april and june. A ba spokesman said that bags that cannot be traced to their owners are sold at auction houses after three months and the proceeds in the"Tens of thousands of pounds"Every year are donated to charity. Liam wilson, one of hundreds of air passengers who have contacted the daily telegraph this week to complain about airlines losing their luggage, said: "I find this staggering. "Mr wilson works in saudi arabia and lost his bags when visiting britain last month. Ned sholtz, a south african, said that when the bag he had lost on a ba flight was returned to him it had been ruined by the rain. "I had a connecting flight with ba on june 29 but my bag didn't arrive.My bag didn't reach me until august 1.It weighed 35 pounds more than when i checked it in.The reason?It was soaked inside and everything was covered in mould.Obviously it had been left outdoors most, if not all, of the time. "Earlier this year an auction at dreweatt neate fine art auction group in bristol sold 44 lots of"Unclaimed airport baggage"From heathrow for more than christine sachett, the chief auctioneer at greasbys in london, said hundreds of bags were sold off each week for between and she said: "After discarding the bags that are too damaged to sell, we probably have 300 lots for sale in a good week. " There is no law governing what should happen to lost luggage.Under the montreal convention, an international agreement on airlines' various liabilities to passengers, a limit of compensation can be claimed.The aea figures for the second quarter this year showed that on every ba boeing 747 flight carrying 350 passengers, an average of 10 people would not find their bags on the carousel. Air france ichaeloronline and lufthansa, which both carried three million more passengers than ba during this period, performed better, with one in 62 passengers losing bags. The aea maintains that, on average, 85 per cent of the bags that go missing are traced and delivered to passengers within 48 hours. Ba attributes some of the problems to a government restriction of only one piece of hand luggage on flights to and from britain.Other carriers still allow two.Willie walsh, the chief executive of ba, and other airline chiefs met ruth kelly, the transport secretary, last week in an attempt to have this overturned. Ba claims the restrictions mean 23, 000 bags a day go michael kors bags cheap through a system designed for 18, 000.It has admitted a backlog of 20, 000 bags but baggage workers claim it is closer to 40, 000. However, passengers have reported trouble contacting ba's baggage retrieval line. Readers of the daily telegraph also complain of emails going unanswered and misleading baggage tracking information.