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Old Mar 16, 2016 | 4:33 pm
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CloudGazer
 
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Originally Posted by lorcancoyle
My understanding is
- check in via app
- use app functionality to update the tag
- drop tagged bag on arrival at terminal

So it's a time / cost saving rationale (no queueing, no need for a self service machine to print tags etc.)
That is neat. I'd missed that completely - I presumed the e-bag would need to be programmed at a check-in counter.

Personally, I'd still prefer a good old fashioned tag for now. The chance of it failing seems (to me!) a lot lower than an e-tag, it's tried and tested and the implications of it failing would be fairly large - i.e. lost baggage.

Be really interested to see how people get on with them though.
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