Originally Posted by
SomeGuy
But, I still believe that there needs to be some form of tracking. If, as num1bearsfan suggests, that scanning would add too much time to turning, then is there a happy medium. Maybe a system could be implemented that when a bag goes to the wrong place they could at least tell the impacted party "Hey, we found your bag in XXX, and it will be on Flight YYYY, and will be back at ZZ:ZZ."
we have this system in affect already. here in ft myers, we get misconnects and bags that weren't taken off at the earlier destination. the baggage service office will scan the bag to say to the computer system "hey, your bag is in ft myers, xxxx is the flight it will be sent back to xxx station"