Originally Posted by
cparekh
In DEL the bags, regardless of airline, must be tagged with something because security must stamp the tag after it has been x-rayed / searched. You cannot board without this stamp. I have made it to security without a tag, and they will just give you one there. So, at least in DEL, it's not an AA procedure as much as an India procedure.
Can someone explain the logic of this obsession in India with those carry-on tags. If your bag made it past the security people, it's obviously safe. I'm not sure what value the tag adds and why they need to check at the gate whether your bag has a tag. How could someone board with a bag that didn't make it past the security people? And even if you were able to sneak a bag full of water bottles (or knives or boxcutters?) past the security people, you could just take a stamped tag off some other bag and put it on the sneaked-in bag.