Luggage Tags for Wheelchairs??

It doesn't seem like a difficult thing. Take the wheelchair from the door of the airplane and put it in the cargo hold. Simple, right? Apparently not. Wheelchairs are disappearing from airplanes at an alarming rate and no one seems to know why. But my point here is a simple one. Much simpler than finding all those missing wheelchairs. If your wheelchair were missing, and someone found it, would the person that found it know how to get it back to you?

Answering that question with a "Yes!" is surprisingly simple. Put a luggage tag on your wheelchair - in an OBVIOUS place - before your next trip. You may already have your name and phone number on your chair, but how obvious is that information to a person that's in the habit of looking for luggage tags?

If a wheelchair is a part of your daily life I already know that you don't think of it as "luggage". It's far more important to you than that. But to the people that are going to put your chair on the airplane for you it's little more than a heavy, awkward piece of luggage. Spending a few dollars on luggage tags in an effort to protect your wheelchair just makes sense.