Originally Posted by
hkskyline
Terrorists can book in a group ticket and disappear somewhere along the way. His bags are tagged to someone else so they don't get offloaded even though he was a no-show on the connecting flight.
Air India bombing all over again ...
I always thought the principle is the bag has to positively match the passenger who owns it and follows him/her all along the journey.
Yea, but obviously plenty of terrorists blow themselves up. So what is the point of positive bag matching again?