Originally Posted by
ffsim
I genuinely don’t know why they still bother with those tags. We know the priority-ness of the bags is coded into the baggage tag, so you’d have to think the priority tag is just there to let the bag owner feel special.
Not all airports have modern baggage handling systems, especially the smaller ones.
Even in larger airports, bags don’t go through the automated baggage handling system in some special circumstances, such as equipment swap, where bags are directly brought from one aircraft to another.