Watch your laptop at BWI or you’ll be flying without it

Business travelers lose about 10,300 laptop computers a week at the nation’s 36 largest airports, according to a study. Care to guess where most disappear?

 “The majority of laptops that are lost in the airport usually are lost at the security checkpoint,” said Jonathan Dean, a spokesman for Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

 Few turn up at the lost-and-found department. The Transportation Security Administration collects those lost during security checks. Laptops left on planes are held by the airline.

“The numbers are staggering — you almost want to have some kind of handcuff to your laptop,” said Larry Ponemon, founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, which conducted the study.

BWI ranked 21st among the nation’s 36 largest airports with about 125 laptops lost at the airport each week, Ponemon said. Ronald Reagan National Airport tied for eighth with about 450 laptops lost per week, while and Washington Dulles International was 10th with about 400 per week.

— The Examiner