<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
This is the connection between baggage checking and carry on bags. . .
I will carry on the rest, because x-raying a carry on is faster then hand searching each and every item in it.
Everybody who doesn't see the connection appears to be assuming that each person on the plane is already traveling with a full sized carry on, which isn't the case at all. I think that many of the people who were not will be after Friday though.</font>
Bag matching does not mean handsearching the bag. It merely means bags may not fly unless the person the bag belongs to boards the flight. This is what occurs on all international flights now and was implemented after the Lockerbie bombing when the suspected bag containing the bomb was checked and the person checking the bag did not board the plane. Bag matching is an alternative to x-raying, handsearching, sniffing, etc., each bag and is a measure all international carriers have been doing for several years. The only delay I have ever had because of bag matching was when someone who has checked bags does not board the plane then the checked bags must be located in the hold and removed. I have had this occur just once while on a SYD-HNL-YVR Qantas flight when a continuing passenger was arrested in HNL for smuggling and the flight was delayed for 30 minutes while his checked bags were located and removed.