Originally Posted by
hikouki
Many travelers (sometimes, me included) always remove those long tags on the handles but forget to remove that rectangular strip adhered on the body of the bag. I sometimes see bags with multiple of those still on the bag, especially the aluminum ones, or the shiny polycarbonates. Do the bag loaders scan all of these to find out where the bag is supposed to go?
Agents at bag acceptance are
supposed to remove or sharpie through/otherwise obliterate old stickers, CLE's agents by and large are fairly militant about it some of the outstations are...unimpressive. My favorite though is when the agents just stack the stickers -- that tallest stack I've gotten before an agent put a stop to it was nearly 1/8"
But if there are multiple "backup" tags on a bag missing the primary (strap tag) and they're trying to figure out where a bag belongs they're likely to try scanning all of them. That said in 1000+ checked bags I've never had an ABT separated from my bag (yet) so this isn't something that is happening hundreds of times a day at any given airport -- it happens but when it does it's special enough that some time can be spent investigating.