Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
If the airlines put a sticker on saying "Firearms" then I would call that a real dumb policy.
If TSA places a seal only on bags containing firearms then that also raises questions. If it is on every bag then that would be different.
No indication of contents should be indicated on the outside of the bags.
TSA does not place any sticker/seal on a bag which has a firearm inside. What TSO1973 was saying is depending on the baggage layout, we place a seal on every bag that it has been inspected.
Originally Posted by
cordelli
The official says that investigators have reviewed videotape surveillance from JFK and saw the carrying case with the now-missing guns being loaded onto the wrong, Los Angeles-bound American Airlines plane. The official said that investigators now believe that the case was mistakenly routed to Los Angeles and that the guns disappeared there. The case had on a wrong routing tag that may have been left on the case from past airline trips.
Hmmm the other day I was working SW baggage and after a bag came through the CTX I went to put the inspection sticker on the baggage tag. The problem was there was 2 baggage destination tags. Both dated July 5th, going to different destinations, with different passenger names on it.
The SW ticket counter people were very busy, and obviously someone got confused and "tagged" a bag that was already tagged by another counter agent.
I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't caught that mistake? Maybe the SW baggage handler would have caught it? Dunno. And I wonder how common this mistake is.
I won't tell you how the SW counter agents figure out who's bag it was, passenger 1 or passenger 2-- no they did not call back either passenger to ask if it was their bag
