Originally Posted by
globalste
Priority Tags usually make no difference. Why? Because in this day and age all luggage at major airports is scanned by the bar code they tie around your luggage.
The priority luggage tags are just a comfort for the premium passengers to think their luggage is being handled with mink gloves by semi-pro gymnasts when really its handled by the same monkeys as everyone elses.
Still many airports glue Heavy / Rush / Transfer / etc tags into tag. I would assume that those have some kind of message anyway. And there are even some RFID solutions today in use (HKG and CX for example); readers could still recognize the priority status these days and do something differently while being mostly automated. Priority tag luggage could in theory packed into the separate container, which is always emptied first into the carousel.
But of course the airline will determine how much their appreciate their elite customers - which doesn't mean much when sometimes half of the airplane is EBGs in case of SAS (at least feels like that).