Originally Posted by bealine
If you subsequently checked an extra bag, and a new boarding pass was not issued to show the extra piece, your claim could fail! Similarly, if the correct weight of your baggage wasn't recorded (nowadays, very few destinations require us to annotate weight), and the Warsaw Convention claim limits are invoked, the claims people may only pay compensation on the declared weight!
Now, OLCI and SSCI guys, this presents a problem. British Airways, in their wisdom, have never instructed check in staff to issue a new boarding pass when a passenger comes to the "Fast" (who the hell coined that misnomer?) Baggage Drop desk - indeed, if we did, it would slow down proceedings drastically!
Can the official BA lurker please examine this situation and report back?
That's a very good point.
When travelling with bags, I have never really seen the point of "Fast Bag Drop". Queue is usually bigger than at the F desk and why make two stops? Now this is a further reason to do it the old-fashioned way. Anyway, when I checked in for Cairo last week (without hold baggage), SSCI wouldn't give me a boarding pass and sent me to a desk anyway.