LondonAndy

I wonder if the same intern is dealing with TAG as the 747 domestic flights?!

LBP2

Circusplaza

With the amount of bumps my Rimowa comes back every time I check it in... I do not trust any of these innovations. The screen will be broken in the first trip, leading to lose the traceability.
I will stick to the regular sticky tags

MPH1980

Exactly - I gave up putting my exec bag tags as ID on my checked luggage (never hand luggage please!) after the first two broke on the first two trips.

Both were simply snapped in half in some machine or other.

Now - give me a sticky RFID tag that goes inside the paper baggage label and let me scan that with my phone OR an RFID tag which could go inside the case permanently ... now we're talking ...

But again - if you've only got one tag on your bag somewhere then the chances of it getting lost or whatever are higher. At least when you check in with BA they put the bag tag on, remove the secondary barcode and put that on the case directly etc. That means even if the primary label goes missing - they can still find out who owns it.

One RFID/E-Paper tag and if it goes snap or comes off - then your bag is lost and unidentifiable.

I get we want to cut down on paper waste - but there are better/more reliable/less fragile ways surely.

LBP2

They’ve now ‘launched’, shipping mid-July. Unfortunately too late for me to test on my holiday trip.

Don’t all rush at once

Mods - might be worth updating the thread title?

avon75

groenroos

The only way I see this having a value proposition is if it means that at BA outposts I can leave my bags and nip through security before the check-in desk opens 2h30m before the flight. Far too many a time I have arrived at the airport "too early", and been left sitting landside waiting for the clerks to turn up, instead of being productive in the lounge. Being able to avoid that would be worth the £63 for me.

It's unclear to me if that would be the case. The text on BA's site says (emphasis mine) "When the customer arrives at the airport, they are fully ready to travel and simply need to drop their bag at any bag drop desk." - does this mean I can just hand in my digitally tagged luggage at an AY desk at HEL? Or a DY desk at OSL? If yes, sold. If no, thanks but no thanks.

firstlight

Something to do with the tag has just appeared in the BA app which has just updated on my phone...

HFHFFlyer

Where in the app is it? Thanks.

MNMAA

Go to the main menu and then Settings to find the TAG option.

SWISSBOBBY

with the frequency with which they mange to destroy my FF baggage tag, which is held on with a leather strap, I am worried that these TAG tags will get broken off.

UKtravelbear

My reading would be at any BA bag drop desk not any other random airlines bag drop desks.

groenroos

I do too suspect that is the case, in honesty. But then am I missing something or do I just not see why this digital bag tag would make things faster or smoother at any point, if you still have to wait for the bag drop to open anyway, and then queue up all the same once it does? If there is no fully self-service entry to airside (and not just at Heathrow T5, but at the smaller outposts too), then what is the point to any of this? The cost of printing paper tags must be negligible, and as for the environmental concern, producing an electronic display will certainly use more resources and create more pollution than printing the 3,000 paper tags it replaces.

I... I don't get it.

Flyiboy

Has anyone been a BETA tester or heard anything positive for the new TAG by British Airways? It's a digital baggage tag. They just updated their APP to reflect this.


.https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...igital-bag-tag

PETER01

Theres some recent discussion in this thread which I'd imagine this one may/will be merged into.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...an-19-a-3.html