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My luggage was missing when I landed at KIX.

But it wasn't the airport's fault - my luggage was still in Amsterdam.

Arrived <24 hours later and they delivered it to my hotel in Osaka.

In my experience, that's far and away the most common scenario. Luggage misses a connection, doesn't get on a flight that has ben changed because of weather, or otherwise ends up somewhere it's not supposed to be. Many airline tracking systems are better than they used to be but AirTags or equivalent are not a bad idea.

I once had SAS lose my luggage on a direct flight from Copenhagen to Tokyo Haneda. I was sure that such a thing was impossible, but I learned an important lesson that day.

Weird things do happen. I was once looking out of an airplane window waiting for takeoff when I saw my suitcase getting offloaded from the hold and taken back to the terminal. Spoke to the crew, who spoke to ground staff, who brought the bag back.

Not the slightest idea what it was all about... (I'm guessing some sort of mix-up in which they thought I'd failed to board?)

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