Luggage tags showing flight details/ holiday address- what do you use?

[noonar]

In the good old days, you always used to get an old fashioned paper plane ticket and an airline's own luggage tag so you could add your holiday address.

Now, obviously we use proper tags with our home address, but now that we tend to fly with budget airlines, we have nothing nice to write our holiday address on. We use old fashioned card luggage tags with the string ties, as we can't think of what else to use. However, they make me feel like an evacuee theyre so old fashioned . what do you use? is their a more 'modern' alternative?

Boots do some cool ones! Just be careful and NEVER write your home address on your luggage tags, as its an open invitation to say Hello my house is empty please burgle me! You would be surprised how many people do...

Wrap duct tape around your luggage, and write details on it with indelible marker.
Works especially well with rucsacks/other luggage with dangley bits on.
Probably not a good idea with top-end smart suitcases but I don't have any of them

Why are you writing anything on them? The airlines attach tags so they can get your bags back to you if they are lost (you would always ask the airport people if they didn't arrive so they would have your details). If it's a smaller bag perhaps it would help if you left it in a taxi or something otherwise can't really see the point.

Excellent point nothinggold. I have never written my name and address on my luggage. I have never lost a bag. It is the responsibility of the airline to label your bags so that they reach the destination.

I always write my name and address on a blank postcard and put it inside my case, just in case it should go missing

You don't need to write anything. That happens for you at check-in. And don't put anything with your home address inside either. People pick up cases not belonging to them all the time and you are leaving yourself open to your house being broken into if someone breaks into your case.

I have got a flowery Cath Kidston tag which really stands out.It's not so much in case my case goes missing (although I have put my mobile number on there for that) but I like it because it helps me spot which is my case as it is coming round!

"Why are you writing anything on them?"

I wouldn't like to assume that just having the airline's labels is sufficient. OH's luggage went astray on a flight back from Oregon. He had written his mobile number on the tag and he was very glad had done so. We do write the address of the destination because they can deliver the case to your hotel without the hassle of language problems or trying to contact you.

Yes but if your bag doesn't come round that carousel you go straight to customer services and give them your details anyway don't you. You will have to do this in case you need to make an insurance claim.

How do lost baggage handlers know what an address means? Are you going on holiday or coming home from it or maybe left it on from another leg of a trip? A mobile might be OK but you could still have language problems even supposing there is a signal where you are if someone does phone.
I've had a bag go missing and Iberia managed to put it in a taxi and drop it off to me based on the fact that I described it to the airline and it had an airline tag of where it should have been.