I had an unfornate incident with a USair flight out of DFW. It was a 170 I was jumpseating on and had to velet check my suitcase. I had crew tag and a valet tag on there when I left it. When I got to DC my bag never came up and I had about a 10-15min connection. Long story short the capt ended up going down to look for my suitcase and found it and I made my connect. However, the crew tag and valet tag were missing. I tend to have a hard time thinking both accidently got ripped off when everybody else got their bags. I almost had to go to baggage claim to get the bag if it wasn't for the cpt I would have been spending the night in DC. Not cool