Originally Posted by
extramileage
That is odd indeed. Assuming you see the bags leave the check-in agent intact, how would anyone in the back even know/care? (other than, perhaps, they know the bag is already in the wrong Y container and rip the tags then not to be reprimanded by managers or pax later).
I travel a lot with my family and we are often on different PNR and bags get tagged randomly, but never had the red tags come off.
Whilst I cannot offer up an explanation I can only go off experience. I have had plenty of flights where the tag has never been ripped off my bag, yet four times this year the tags have come off my girlfriends bag, making my priority luggage pointless. Then, as previously mentioned with the exact same bags but all under my name they stayed on. It is interesting you say they have not come off when on a different PNR because I was beginning to think that may have been the cause.