

More than 265 airlines, including leading figures, are among their members. It is responsible for the cooperation between the airlines and creates basic provisions for the various services of the airlines. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) regulates the content of all such information. This agreement also constituted the limitation of liability for checked luggage. The Warsaw Convention on Carriage in International Air Transport, in particular Article 4 thereof, laid down in 1929 the criteria for the issuance of baggage checks or luggage tickets. Since then it has become established to mark the baggage by a tag on bus, train and all air travel. Patented was the baggage tag as a simple paper pendant in 1882 by the Canadian John Michael Lyons. That is why we at Security Label have specialized in producing robust tags with high quality. The baggage tag has the important function to ensure that the luggage is on the right track to the destination airport. An additional section is stuck at the check-in to the traveler’s flight ticket as proof of ownership. So that something like this does not happen, there is the baggage tag.īaggage tags, also known as luggage tags, are the small pieces of paper which are attached to the suitcase at the baggage drop-off counter.

From printing to the destination airport The tag determines where the journey is goingįor passengers, it is a horror scenario: After a long flight you arrive at the destination airport, the luggage however unfortunately does not.
