Another one bites the dust
Dec 18, 2022, 9:03 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: BA Gold, VS Gold, IHG Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hertz Presidents Circle.
Posts: 1,448
Recently requested 2 new Gold tags as they 'vanished' during the 6 days it took for my bag to make it back from LAX a month ago.
Dec 18, 2022, 9:54 pm
#3
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ealing
Programs: Usual Amex Cent. GGL.
Posts: 1,489
My brand new GGL tag came back LITERALLY folded in half along the long edge, my TSA compliant lock missing and the contents of my bag strewn randomly around the interior (including taking apart a key ring capsule containing an emergency £20 note) on delayed baggage LHR PHL yesterday. Gosh, strewn is a good word.
Dec 19, 2022, 3:29 am
#4
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 737
Dec 19, 2022, 4:47 am
#6
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 285
My brand new GGL tag came back LITERALLY folded in half along the long edge, my TSA compliant lock missing and the contents of my bag strewn randomly around the interior (including taking apart a key ring capsule containing an emergency £20 note) on delayed baggage LHR PHL yesterday. Gosh, strewn is a good word.
Dec 19, 2022, 4:57 am
#7
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,648
My brand new GGL tag came back LITERALLY folded in half along the long edge, my TSA compliant lock missing and the contents of my bag strewn randomly around the interior (including taking apart a key ring capsule containing an emergency £20 note) on delayed baggage LHR PHL yesterday. Gosh, strewn is a good word.
Dec 19, 2022, 5:38 am
#8
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 1,396
Seriously, does putting a Gold tag on the bag make any difference at all? I never bothered. I find these days that baggage handlers mostly ignore the 'priority tags'. Bags just come out randomly now.
Dec 19, 2022, 6:11 am
#9
Join Date: May 2009
Location: London
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 2,741
I just use them as luggage tags, to identify my case. Absolutely no expectation they make any difference - because I know they don’t.
Dec 19, 2022, 6:50 am
#10
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,839
Any truth to the suggestion that not only do shiny tags not work to speed up baggage handling, they risk actually slowing it down on the basis the more external protuberances you have the more likely it is to catch in the baggage system?
Dec 19, 2022, 7:01 am
#11
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 737
I put them on my hand luggage but never on checked. As mentioned, BA don't prioritise priority tags and might just make the bag a target for thieves?
On hand luggage they're for 1) DYKWIA reasons and 2) if there gets to a situation where crew are threatening to check bags as the overhead bins are full - hopefully would be used as a tie-breaker.
On hand luggage they're for 1) DYKWIA reasons and 2) if there gets to a situation where crew are threatening to check bags as the overhead bins are full - hopefully would be used as a tie-breaker.
Dec 19, 2022, 8:00 am
#12
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: BER
Programs: BAEC GGL/GfL, Lufthansa SEN, Hilton Diamond, misc other stuff
Posts: 1,374
Cables ties are great, because while they are not tamper proof, they are tamper evident.
A malicious third party looking to liberate a few valuables from a piece of luggage might think twice and rather go for a different piece of luggage.
Aliexpress has *numbered* plastic security ties/seals that are a few cents per piece.
A malicious third party looking to liberate a few valuables from a piece of luggage might think twice and rather go for a different piece of luggage.
Aliexpress has *numbered* plastic security ties/seals that are a few cents per piece.
Dec 19, 2022, 11:54 am
#13
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ealing
Programs: Usual Amex Cent. GGL.
Posts: 1,489
just a standard TSA inspection they added a card inside the luggage for. TBH it was the most slapdash inspection I’ve ever had. Slightly aggrieved about them nicking the lock though.
Dec 19, 2022, 1:45 pm
#14
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum (OWE), HHonors Gold
Posts: 203
Also the key rings are reusable unlike cable ties.
Dec 19, 2022, 10:55 pm
#15
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: BER
Programs: BAEC GGL/GfL, Lufthansa SEN, Hilton Diamond, misc other stuff
Posts: 1,374
This is where the unique numbers on the cable ties come in. If there's a unique number on them it would be hard for a person to replace it with the same tie, even when there might be additional cable ties with other numbers in the luggage.
Given the time I could open your luggage, grab something and use the key ring to 'lock' it up and from the outside you had no idea that I went through your luggage.
Given the time I could open your luggage, grab something and use the key ring to 'lock' it up and from the outside you had no idea that I went through your luggage.