Originally Posted by
45128
Oh c'mon! With your hand on your heart, HilFly, when was the last time any airline you have travelled with matched your bags with your tags?
Originally Posted by
HighLife
I don't think it's airlines but the airports that do this sometimes.
At PHX T4, it used to be pretty standard to have to have your baggage tag match before you were let out of the carousel area. (In fact, the area was deliberately built to funnel people to very specific exit areas so that no one could leave without a check.
Then, the economy went sour and the cutbacks led to the practice being stopped.
Well,
until November 2009 when Keith and Stacy King were arrested for stealing over 1,000 (yes, one thousand) pieces of luggage from PHX
Suddenly, the tags were being matched again... for about a week until the uproar subsided and, now, being stopped to have your tags checked may happen once in a blue moon, if that.