Originally Posted by
Globaliser
AIUI, the main purpose of the BA tags is to stop the passenger asking for a priority tag; at least at LHR T5, the priority tag does nothing to get the bag into a priority can because the baggage system can read the bar codes but can't read the priority tag, and humans are not involved in routing the bag to the priority can.
BA only has one tag, no differentiation between OWE/F and OWS/J. I believe until recently BA never published priority baggae as an elite benefit or based on COS.
Whenever I have flown BA, an it's always in F, the tags have meant nothing, yet the crew are always able to pickup their bags before all the other pax. Of course crew bags should be priority, my point is that they can make priority work when they want to.
I don't check bags on domestic, but on QFi I have always had good priority baggage on QF with yellow F tags except ports where there is no F cabin and they don't use those tags.