The luggage 'safety' measure travellers make that might be doing more harm then good

Anyone who has ever been at an airport will have seen luggage tightly wrapped up in plastic.

Or, you might have popped a lock on your suitcase before a flight.

But an anonymous airline worker has revealed this might not protect your bags at all.

Instead, they suggest that this could actually be a reason why a suitcase could be broken into in the first place, reports the Express.

The inside information was posted to a Reddit forum which begs the question: “People who work for airlines, what are secrets passengers don't know?”

The worker wrote: “It's literally not even a deterrent.

"Some might take it as a sign that the bag is worth searching.”

Meanwhile, another user chimed in saying: “Locks on zippered bags are useless.

“You can pop a zipper with a pen and drag the locked zipper pulls around the bag to close them back up.

“I’ve done this many times to identify bags that are tagless and locked.”