Roslyn

And plastic tags did see quite a few on my case search

Thanks everyone, yes tape sounds like a great idea, might some hi vis luminous

I might be a bit dum,but I double checked the instructions again when I got home. Baggage tags don't just go on the handle! Air craft baggage tags go on the side handle! But apparently cruise ship tags go on the upright side on the handle next to the pull-up handle. Now where did I find this instruction!! So apparently a steward thought they would teach us a lesson. On departing the Ovation on Sat 2 march in Sydney, we spent an hour looking for our suit cases with a lot of help one was found after 20min the other took an hour. This person had cut the tags off, they did not fall off or get caught and tear, they where double taped with clear medical tape and the identifing spliced colour rope also removed which would have taken a very sharp knife or quite a while with a pair of scissors. Thanks to the many help full staff they where found and we caught our connecting flight. But it was a stressful time and we will get it right next time. There were a group of cases with missing tags that had been put aside I wonder if the same thing happened to them, unfortunately ours had not been placed with them so it took quite a while and a lot of peoples time to find ours