Aaah, but not quite the TR 
Somewhere in the Copy and Paste from my .docx notes into the TR the following paragraphs disappeared!
It's "not the worst thing that happened" but of course it was just another "incident" that is "all part of the travel experience" and topped off the trip nicely.
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Day #25
The trip gremlins weren't finished with us yet.
LHR decided to perform a software upgrade on their baggage handling system on the day before we flew ZRH-LHR-SYD, the net result being the whole baggage system collapsed with delays of 3-4 hours at check in and huge flow-on delays.
QF2 was delayed over an hour as bags were being loaded late.
Finally doors closed and off we went. Landed at DXB, hardly any time in the EK J lounge (which is why there's no photos!) and back on to QF2.
An hour out of SYD, the CSM comes to me and tells me that "
it appears that one or more of your bags didn't make it onto the plane, you need to wait at SYD until all bags are offloaded to see which bag(s) are affected." He then repeats the same news to several other passengers in Emerald City.
Great!
At SYD QF staff were able to tell me that only one case was left behind (by its ID number) and guess whose bag?
MrsC's
! So that went down like a lead balloon.
It was to be placed on QF10 and be here in MEL next day. Oh well we transfer to QF domestic and just time for a coffee and juice before boarding our 700am MEL flight (beautiful refurb A330 - brilliant plane). Delayed half an hour.
Into MEL and MY CASE didn't appear on the carousel!!!!
In fact, just about every passenger I recognised from the flight who was in J was also waiting for their bags. Over to baggage services - "yes there was a problem in SYD" - most bags left behind (apparently the priority container, of course).
So my case turned up a few hours later at about lunchtime and MrsC's the following day.
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- selecting photos at the moment.
