Complimentary bag taping
Jun 18, 2019, 6:29 am
#33
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Seriously, you have routing information on your bags for the last 10 odd flights, how can a handler expect to find out which one is right? Do you lose your luggage regularly?
I get that in the old days, it seemed to be a thing to put stickers of destinations on your (usually 3 feet by 2 feet cardboard) suitcase, for some reason. But leaving old barcodes on luggage is just asking for trouble,
I get that in the old days, it seemed to be a thing to put stickers of destinations on your (usually 3 feet by 2 feet cardboard) suitcase, for some reason. But leaving old barcodes on luggage is just asking for trouble,
Jun 18, 2019, 6:41 am
#34
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Flatland
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Open bag -> place dirty clothes into dirty clothes store -> check contents of consumbles in the bag, clean up any rubbish in, or on outside of, bag -> put bag away in store -> resume non-travel activities.
It's fairly simple. And my bag doesn't go missing.
Jun 18, 2019, 7:32 am
#36
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Has not. Yet.
Can you not see the flaws in the idea that you've got 10-20 other barcodes going through an automated baggage system, where luggage does go missing for no explained reason sometimes anyway?
I mean, what if they find an earlier LHR-JFK flight, from the one your booking reference is booked, and the system doesn't check the time? While going through a connecting airport?
I'm in software, and we only go so far down the line on the idiot factor on our stuff, like who'd keep a bunch of expired barcodes on their luggage.
Can you not see the flaws in the idea that you've got 10-20 other barcodes going through an automated baggage system, where luggage does go missing for no explained reason sometimes anyway?
I mean, what if they find an earlier LHR-JFK flight, from the one your booking reference is booked, and the system doesn't check the time? While going through a connecting airport?
I'm in software, and we only go so far down the line on the idiot factor on our stuff, like who'd keep a bunch of expired barcodes on their luggage.
Jun 18, 2019, 10:01 am
#38
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Jun 18, 2019, 2:14 pm
#39
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Including the one for the journey you'd just made? You're lucky it arrived in HKG!
Jun 18, 2019, 3:09 pm
#40
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Location: Flatland
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If the system sees two bag tag stubs on your bag, and both bag tag numbers are in use (bag tags recycle every 4-7 days depending on the airline and "live" for 2-3 days, again depending on the airline), then the system will be well and truly confused and will dump the bag for someone will look at it.
Last edited by flatlander; Jun 18, 2019 at 4:00 pm Reason: typo
Jun 18, 2019, 8:40 pm
#42
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Has not. Yet.
Can you not see the flaws in the idea that you've got 10-20 other barcodes going through an automated baggage system, where luggage does go missing for no explained reason sometimes anyway?
I mean, what if they find an earlier LHR-JFK flight, from the one your booking reference is booked, and the system doesn't check the time? While going through a connecting airport?
I'm in software, and we only go so far down the line on the idiot factor on our stuff, like who'd keep a bunch of expired barcodes on their luggage.
Can you not see the flaws in the idea that you've got 10-20 other barcodes going through an automated baggage system, where luggage does go missing for no explained reason sometimes anyway?
I mean, what if they find an earlier LHR-JFK flight, from the one your booking reference is booked, and the system doesn't check the time? While going through a connecting airport?
I'm in software, and we only go so far down the line on the idiot factor on our stuff, like who'd keep a bunch of expired barcodes on their luggage.