The a380 - the biggest aircraft i the skies

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Is it really lost luggage if the airport are in possession of it and they're always labelled? 

Might be more aptly referred to as the mountain of luggage that was misrouted and we are too cheap and lazy to track down the owners...

I agree. I watched the Fair go item on Monday. I guess an occasional bag might have lost the label that shows who owns it but clearly most people are fully traceable, especially when they go out of their way to try and get their bags bag. One guy had GPS trackers on his bags and knew exactly where they were at Sydney airport. He was willing to fly there himself to get the bags back.

Mention of "lost" baggage always reminds me of an incident at Christchurch airport many years ago. We were in the viewing area waiting for our flight and saw a luggage trolley on its way to a plane. A bag fell off and the trolley operator just kept going without it, leaving it lying in the middle of the tarmac. On his way back for the next load he went right past it. Then, same guy with the next lot going to the same plane went right past it again. After he and a few others baggage handlers had left it there for a while, it finally got picked up and taken back to the terminal, after the plane it was supposed to be on was all closed up ready for flight. So a bag that could have been dealt with immediately and put onto the flight it was supposed to be on ended up being "lost". The time wastage of the airline staff and the stress for the owner could have been avoided if the first handler had picked it up when he should have. At that point it would only need its label to be checked and could have made it onto the right flight.

that's interesting, I do wonder though if there are rules about that ie maybe getting out of the vehicle when a plane is on the tarmac is a no no... H&S sort of thing...