Cards, Phones, Jackets - More Than 24,000 Items Left On Planes And At Changi Airport

Feb. 22, 2015

The number of lost and found items has gone up despite growth of just 0.7 percent in overall passenger numbers at the airport between 2013 and last year.

Source The Sunday Times

Cleaners from ground handler SATS walk up the staircase to an airplane. SATS workers recover thousands of items left on planes every year.

An Angklung (Malay musical instrument), X-ray films, hearing aids, dentures, surfboards and even a washing machine - these are some of the stranger items which increasingly forgetful travellers are leaving behind at Changi Airport.

SATS- the airport's biggest ground-handling agent which deals with Singapore Airlines and other carriers' flights - recovered around 17,000 items left on planes last year.

This is more than 11/2 times the 11,000 items found a year ago.

Changi Airport Group, which maintains a separate list of things found at the terminals, recovered 7,680 credit/ATM cards and mobile phones last year compared with 7,180 in 2013.

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