A Delta airlines plane flew from Heathrow to Detroit filled with 1,000 lost suitcases.
The airline made the move after cancelling its regular service between London and Detroit on Monday due to Heathrow’s decision to introduce an unprecedented 100,000 passenger limit on daily departing passengers until September 11.
Passengers were instead move onto alternative flights, allowing Delta to use an empty Airbus SE A330-200 to transport piles of luggage.
Delta’s Chief Executive Ed Bastian said: “We’ve gone as far as recently we had a separate charter just to repatriate bags back to customers that have been stranded because of some of the operational issues.”
Staff shortages have led to piles of lost luggage beside baggage belts and passengers having to wait weeks to be reunited with clothing and other necessities.
