reusing green gate check tags
May 12, 2017, 3:17 am
#16
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There is no issue with this, until, as poster above has said, UA loses your bag.
I always get a new one because then I have evidence I actually put a bag on the plane rather than just have a left-over green tag stub from a previous flight.
I always get a new one because then I have evidence I actually put a bag on the plane rather than just have a left-over green tag stub from a previous flight.
May 12, 2017, 6:48 am
#17
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Maybe I'm the only one but..... I used to reuse my green tag. Then one flight (ATL-DEN) I'm waiting for my green tagged luggage and nothing. I go to the gate agent, she takes my stub and says your bag is in ELP. It really wasn't, it was still in ATL, but the information she had from the last scan made it much harder to actually find my bag and get it to me. Finally got to me a day later....
What made this extra fun when I got to the UA Baggage office to file a claim, and mentioned my meds were in my bag and she started to scold me how I should know better to put meds in checked baggage. I almost lit up on her but kept my cool and said, "I've always considered green tag as the same as a carry on, but since you are telling me you can lose those too...".
What made this extra fun when I got to the UA Baggage office to file a claim, and mentioned my meds were in my bag and she started to scold me how I should know better to put meds in checked baggage. I almost lit up on her but kept my cool and said, "I've always considered green tag as the same as a carry on, but since you are telling me you can lose those too...".
It alll depends on them scanning bags since they actually don't control bags and tags like at check in.
May 12, 2017, 1:44 pm
#18
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Folks, including myself, have done this for years --- http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...heck-tags.html (2012)
May 12, 2017, 2:19 pm
#19
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I don't happen to re-use mine. Went to the gate at ORD to ask for one ahead of boarding, in order to save some time; the GA apologized said that he had to tag it during the boarding process. I had never heard that before, but I sat back down and, sure enough, he tagged my bag -- and everybody else's -- as we got onto the plane.
I'm not sure what we would have done if I'd already had one, but I'm guessing he would have torn it off and replaced it.
I'm not sure what we would have done if I'd already had one, but I'm guessing he would have torn it off and replaced it.
May 12, 2017, 2:33 pm
#20
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I don't happen to re-use mine. Went to the gate at ORD to ask for one ahead of boarding, in order to save some time; the GA apologized said that he had to tag it during the boarding process. I had never heard that before, but I sat back down and, sure enough, he tagged my bag -- and everybody else's -- as we got onto the plane.
I'm not sure what we would have done if I'd already had one, but I'm guessing he would have torn it off and replaced it.
I'm not sure what we would have done if I'd already had one, but I'm guessing he would have torn it off and replaced it.
May 12, 2017, 2:45 pm
#21
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I suppose that's possible. I'd never seen it before, though -- usually it's the other way around, with GAs either walking around the boarding area to distribute tags or making an announcement to come get one.
May 12, 2017, 2:45 pm
#22
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I have used the same one over and over, but recently they started pulling the old ones off and giving me a new one. I also noticed that they have started to scan the green tags. I have never seen that before.
May 12, 2017, 2:50 pm
#23
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Maybe I'm the only one but..... I used to reuse my green tag. Then one flight (ATL-DEN) I'm waiting for my green tagged luggage and nothing. I go to the gate agent, she takes my stub and says your bag is in ELP. It really wasn't, it was still in ATL, but the information she had from the last scan made it much harder to actually find my bag and get it to me. Finally got to me a day later....
What made this extra fun when I got to the UA Baggage office to file a claim, and mentioned my meds were in my bag and she started to scold me how I should know better to put meds in checked baggage. I almost lit up on her but kept my cool and said, "I've always considered green tag as the same as a carry on, but since you are telling me you can lose those too...".
What made this extra fun when I got to the UA Baggage office to file a claim, and mentioned my meds were in my bag and she started to scold me how I should know better to put meds in checked baggage. I almost lit up on her but kept my cool and said, "I've always considered green tag as the same as a carry on, but since you are telling me you can lose those too...".