German tourists told to take colourful luggage to avoid airport delays

Advice to holidaymakers to ditch black bags to make it easier to find them met with mockery in media

German holidaymakers are being advised to ditch black suitcases and kit themselves out with more colourful and eye-catching luggage instead to make locating them easier at airports suffering from baggage handling chaos.

Stefan Schulte, the head of Frankfurt airport, has said the predominance of black suitcases used by passengers has contributed to the difficulties faced by airlines and baggage handlers in recent weeks, because he said it was hard to distinguish them from each another".