Timeline for Green baggage tag to non-EU destination
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| Dec 12, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | gsnedders | @user49558 Yes. But it's cheaper and easier to just put them on everything. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 9:50 | comment | added | user49558 | So basically the green bag tags are only useful if the end destination is inside the EU? | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 1:11 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | @user49558 There are itineraries which start and end in the EU but transit at an airport outside the EU. | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:43 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Yep at that point it simply doesn't matter. In your example, the US officials simply don't care (or know) about the green-edged tags and just do their thing no matter what color is on the tags. | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | gsnedders | @HenningMakholm Oh, yes, I fully accept my above question is totally and utterly hypothetical. :) | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | In practical terms, baggage-tag printers at EU airports are stocked with green-edged tags only -- even if they were legally allowed to use plain tags for purely-domestic passengers, it would just be an additional expense for no gain to do so. | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:17 | comment | added | gsnedders | @user49558 Yes. It's not pointless because it means they have one strip of paper to print the baggage tags on, and that is pre-printed with the green strips down the side. Otherwise, they'd need two different sets of paper, one with the green strips and one without with all the extra complexity of managing that. (You'd have the cost of needing two reels presumably in two printers, need to make sure all intra-EU journeys get the right one… and the cost of pre-printing it is probably cheap compared with the cost of the sticky backing.) | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:15 | comment | added | user49558 | Are you saying that if I flew from an EU point of departure (e.g. Frankfurt) and flew for example to the U.S., my bag tags would be green? That seems so pointless... | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:14 | comment | added | gsnedders | As an aside, can someone actually find the legal statement about baggage tags in the EU? I'm seeing contradictory terms whether purely domestic (within the member state) journeys are obliged to have green-tags or not. | |
| Dec 11, 2016 at 23:13 | history | edited | gsnedders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2016 at 22:59 | history | answered | gsnedders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |