Well, not quite naked. But thousand of tourists found themselves shivering in Arctic temperatures last week because their baggage failed to turn-up at the airport.

Twenty thousand tourists arrived in Northern Lapland for winter holidays to be informed that their baggage was nowhere to be found. As such, many of them were left without any warm clothes to protect against the nose-diving temperatures.

The delay was caused by the baggage fiasco at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. At the beginning of the week, 4000 bags had been left stranded there without their owners. At the time of writing, it is down to a few hundred.

Finn Air have blamed the delay on snowy weather leading to flight schedule changes but unions have the claimed the fault lies with a shortage of baggage-handling staff due to redundancies.

British tourist Anne, 55, had come to Oulu to see her baby grand-daughter.

‘When we got to Oulu airport our luggage was not there,’ Anne told 65DN. ‘We were told it was because we had a quick connection between Helsinki and Oulu and so there wasn’t time for the baggage to catch-up.’

‘It was frustrating because the hand luggage contained a lot of my grand-daughter’s presents,’ said the British woman, who was accompanied by her 85 year-old mother.

‘But, the next day, Finn Air sent a taxi to the house they were staying in to give their bags.

Other tourists have not been so fortunate. YLE News interviewed a man from Uruguay had come for a skiing holiday. All his equipment was in his hold luggage and he only received it right at the end of his holiday. They also interviewed a Portuguese family whose six year-old asthmatic daughter’s medicine was left stranded in their checked-in baggage.

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