Orange County Commuter

The best thing to do is put on an old Silver tag. Then when you get upgraded you can watch the people with DM cowbells stampede to complain

Keith2004

"I'm too cool to put my status tag on my bag, anybody that does is swinging their D*ck or bragging" - FT

If people wanna put their tags on who cares lol its almost like a bumper-sticker

Full disclosure:
I have my Platinum tag on my bag and I glide around the airport with it with pride :-:

Ysitincoach

In those examples, those are their careers; not their commute.

It's more like decorating your car, or subway seat with a sticker that says "douche."

DataPlumber

Agreed. If you have nice bags to begin with, why bring them down with a 17 cent plastic ego stroke.

dilbertsdaddy

I don't have one on my laptop bag, but I keep one on my rollerboard in the hopes that they will think twice about manhandling my bag or make a little extra effort getting it to it's connection. This may be wishful thinking but that's my rationale.

ethernal

Definitely wishful thinking. The throwers don't give a crap about your status.

Zorak

This guy you saw is an amateur -- there was a pic a while back where someone had multiple cowbells, but not content to have them just stacked up, they'd glued or somehow or other forced them to always be spread out to be sure people could see them all.

Start_at_UIN

I have a couple GM and a PM, but they're all under my KM:

hockeystl

Such a bizarre phenomenon of people caring about what others may, or may not, put on a bag. Seriously, why do you all care so much to take a pic and start a thread?

This all just cracks me up. "I'm waaaaay too modest to ever put a tag on my bag" type-attitude. Do you remove/cover the Tumi icon from your bag too? How about yanking off the Polo emblem on your shirts? How about covering the emblems on your BMW? Do you put a little sticker over that Rolex symbol too? Don't want to brag, right?

I have *one* tag on my bag. MSPEcon is onpoint with her post. Believe it or not, having the tag on a carry-on actually DOES have a benefit sometimes like she mentions. FA's are much quicker to open that closet for a bag with a "brag" tag once the overheads are full...and given FCM this helps when stuck in Y+ with full bins and you're boarding late due to a tight cxn.

StayingHomeIsBetter

The fellow with 4 DM tags on the bag will feel 4X the remorse when the cheesy wire tie that DL provides unscrews and he loses them all.

I keep one tag on each bag and try to make the tag visible in the overhead so that, if an FA is looking to make room by finding one to remove, he/she may pass by mine.

DTWflyer

In most cases there is a correlation to the number of brag tags and the size of their gut, and an inverse relationship to how they treat others.

hockeyinsider

In some of the out-stations where you may need a card for airport security priority lines they can be helpful. Oslo has automated gates, which didn't recognize my status when flying KLM for some reason. I had to flash a card to the attendant to override the automated gate.

hockeyinsider

Except on Delta Connection flights operated by GoJet. The flight attendants on this regional carrier are a real pain in the butt about first-class passengers stowing a briefcase or small carry-on in the closet. I often travel with about $7,000 in camera gear. There's no way I will gate-check the bag with that kind of equipment in it.

yohanson

OP, I think I've seen that guy's bag before. Was he about mid 30s and average height? If so, he finally made MM, I see.

hockeyinsider

No. Probably 50.