A vacation trip to your
most desired place or a business meeting overseas, airline journey can be both
tiring and exciting. We sit down in our seats and off the place goes to the
place we desire. But amidst all this, where is your luggage? The luggage you arrive
with is placed at the back of the plane so that your travel experience is less
clumsy and comfortable.
Technology is attaining
heights every passing day, and the long looped sticker that you couldn’t wait
to rip off from your baggage has changed its shape and size while holding a lot
of information in just a simple tag. The Automated baggage tag (ABT) first came
into use in the early 1990s, following that this humble but strong ABT can
withstand anything that comes its way, be it harsh weather conditions or rough
handling. Now, it is much more than just a piece of paper.
Features
of the ABT
Well-Designed
Strip:
PrintedAirline Luggage Tag, when attached properly to the bag,
withstands the hardships as it stumbles through the complex baggage system. The
ABT is made up of a complex mixture of plastic and silicon which gives it the
ability to resist cold, heat, sunlight and much more.
The ABTs are unique as
they are pretty easy to attach with the baggage but tough to detach easily. If
you need to remove the sticker from the bag, you need to grab the loop from
inside and to use two hands, gently pull apart the sticker and remove it. The
adhesive is so designed that it doesn’t leave any residue.
Information
On The Tag:
The information carried
by the tag helps the aviation operations run smoothly while using the printed thermal ticket system. The
information fed to the tag helps the staff to sort and track luggage when
moving to and from different airports all across the world.
Bag Tags Are Of Different Type:
A normal bag tag comes
with the passenger’s name along with flight details and destination which is
read from bottom to up. However, there are certain pieces of information that
are not visible to the passenger. The tag carries a 13 digit long number from
which only the first ten are visible.
The first four digits
of the same are airline specific and are known as the Baggage tag Issuer Code.
The following six digits are a just rolling number that had started from the
beginning when the whole series started getting used. The last three digits
that aren’t printed on the tag represent the number of bags remaining in the
queue.
This feature prevents
the bags from getting lost during transportation. The Barcode is printed twice
on the tag with offset by 90 degrees which makes it possible to be read by
either the automatic scanners or the handheld scanners. There is an extra
protection called the removable stubs which bear the copy of the barcode and
are placed in the bag to prevent theft or misplacement.
