Originally Posted by
btang
Then came the bad news, because my itinerary had a lot of connections, she would not be able to tag it all the way to Hong Kong, unless she manually wrote one out. This was quite funny actually, here we are in 2014, and baggage tags could conceivably be hand-written. I was not about to take such a chance, and she recommended I collect my bags in Zurich and re-check it then, and I took her advice.
Something I was taught by Thai Airways a while back: they can just print two bag tags for one bag. US Airways has been able to do this several times. There's a limit of the number of connections per bag tag, but not on the number of bag tags applied to each bag. Each time I've told them to just print two bag tags, they're pretty surprised to learn they can do actually do it.