According to a 2025 survey conducted by Compare the Market, 25.9% of American travelers have had their luggage lost by airlines. Unfortunately, some of these bags are gone forever, with 6.9% of U.S. flyers saying the airlines never returned their missing baggage. Some of them could eventually end up in Unclaimed Baggage, America's only lost luggage store .

But while there are ways to prevent this nightmare from happening, there is simply an airport with a record amount of lost luggage or an airline that is more likely to mishandle your precious belongings. United , Delta , and Southwest are among the top 5 U.S. carriers in that list.

2025 data from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) even reveals that one of them has a troubling mishandled luggage rate that exceed

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