This illustrates the arrogance of the airline industry. They dont want to address this issue. CCTV should be installed in all baggage areas, and mployees should be subjected to random searches on leaving. This story shows what scale this is on. This is not a Southwest it is industry wide. Over 20 years ago, I remember a 60 minutes expose showing routine, widespead theft at JFK. It seems nothng will be done, yet another reason we need widespread regulation. We should have regulations which require:
1. Airlines to log all complaints of theft or misding items. This should be filed with the DOT and airport police
2. CCTV to be installed in all baggage handling areas
3. Random searches of all employees leaving work
4. Disclosure quarterly of statistics on reported thefts
That might shine some light on the scale of the problem.
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