Originally Posted by
D582
There are signs all over the customs hall that look similar to this as well as audible announcements. (This was taken in the NEXUS area so it references NEXUS. But there are similar signs in th baggage hall saying customers arriving from the listed cities need not reclaim their bags).
Having an ATH-BCN flight on another airline before is not relevant. If the bag was tagged in ATH as BCN-YYZ-YWG then it goes through automatically. At this point it's simply a mislaid baggage case. For all you know the bag never made it out of ATH.
What a poorly designed sign. Public signs that have 11 lines of text in English followed by the same in French will be ignored by most travels. A few will take photos of such sign for posting on forum to discuss said sign.
Honestly no one rushing to make a connection is going to pay attention to a sign like that. That is the type of sign that is put up by bureaucrats so after the fact they can say "But, we told you, we had a sign and it even said Attention. What! You were looking the other way at the sign of talking penguins selling Visa cards or the underwear model on the sports car. Nonsense our sign is so much more engaging and important looking."
They should pro-actively move to doing this for all flights from all destinations. That would result in a consistent consumer experience. Basically, your bags should be transferred to the final destination unless the customs officer indicates otherwise. If customs in its wisdom decides we must inspect every bag off a given flight they can still do that.