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Old Jan 15, 2018, 11:07 am
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Question Bag tag airport code question


Is there any reason why the "V" in CVG was NOT printed in reverse image on the rightmost bag tag?
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 1:40 am
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Almost certainly something to do with Jerry Springer...
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 2:09 am
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Perhaps to more easily distinguish it from a similar airport code?

Or Trump.
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 2:24 am
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Originally Posted by DragonSoul
Perhaps to more easily distinguish it from a similar airport code?

Or Trump.
To avoid lunch in Covington (CVG) bags in Paris (CDG)?
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 8:04 am
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Originally Posted by farci
To avoid lunch in Covington (CVG) bags in Paris (CDG)?
First I was going to write "But what about PVG?" but on second thought I think you're right. Especially if we'd assume this is meant to facilitate ground handling in CVG and not so much MSP (where the tag was printed), since DL serves only one INTL destination from CVG, and that is exactly CDG.
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 9:37 pm
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I’ve gotten tags printed like that before.

unfortunately, I can’t remember the destination(s) or airline(s).
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Old Jan 16, 2018, 9:58 pm
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You might have been secretly tagged by the FSB (Russia)???
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Old Jan 18, 2018, 2:35 am
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Maybe it is to distinguish a "V" instead of a "U" as someone who may be reading it quickly may misread it. Since this is Delta, maybe this should be in the Delta Forum where someone who works for the airline may actually read this and respond quicker.
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Old Jan 18, 2018, 1:37 pm
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Originally Posted by teddybear99
Maybe it is to distinguish a "V" instead of a "U" as someone who may be reading it quickly may misread it.
I searched the interwebs for a DL tag for PVG and I found one. It does not have the V printed in reverse image.

Originally Posted by teddybear99
Since this is Delta, maybe this should be in the Delta Forum where someone who works for the airline may actually read this and respond quicker.
Sure, I cannot open a second topic without breaking FlyerTalk ToS, but I invite a moderator to move it over to DL.
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Old Jan 18, 2018, 6:13 pm
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Old Jan 18, 2018, 9:37 pm
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Originally Posted by Kamalaasaa
This article has a pic for a BP for LAX

http://www.seat31b.com/wp-content/up...9138069292.jpg






Well, Southwest serves another LA? (LAS) and even another ?AX (JAX) and but no other airports with a code of L?X except LAX. If there was a possibility for a manual missort, it wouldn't be caused by the middle letter. Weird. Once in a blue moon, a WN flight could be chartered to LEX, but would that justify printing every LAX label differently?
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Old Jan 19, 2018, 5:34 am
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I wish I'd kept the one I got when I flew to Tagbilaran.
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Old Jan 26, 2018, 9:54 am
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Maybe for SSSS?
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Old Jan 26, 2018, 10:38 am
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Intrigued, I read the entire IATA Resolution 740 that is the spec for luggage tags, and it doesn't mention reverse printing at all!

ftp://ns.tais.ru/pub/doc/DOC1.pdf

(Warning! 1,600 page PDF, 61MB)
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Old Jan 26, 2018, 11:52 am
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I thought some tag printers just do that.. I've definitely seen it before with other airports.
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