Originally Posted by
Gianmarcomorningside
When you check in for a flight and your luggage will be in transit at a city which is not your final destination a tag called transfer is attached to your case as the case needs to be transferred to another plane.
That's certainly not the rule. Generally you have one baggage tag all the airport codes and flight numbers the bag travels through on it. Most baggage tags have room for 3 or 4 airport codes and flight numbers.
In case there's not enough room you'll get two tags, which looks like this:
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https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...l-ams-syd.html)
There are airlines (and airports) use transfer tags that are attached to the main tags. It's generally done to separate bags on short/long connections from those with normal connections. Bags with "long connections" are generally sent to a warehouse.
Originally Posted by
Gianmarcomorningside
It is a pain and this has happened to me twice in the last six weeks. Both times the airport workers in Zurich did not remove the transfer tag which is green in colour and placed on the case in Cologne.
How about asking them not to put those transfer tags on. The ordinary tags should be more than enough. In any case, the error clearly seems to be made in Johannesburg. It's a simple question of scanning the tag and either send it to the baggage claim or to the next flight. If they scanned the bag, then they'd know that the bag is at its destination.