For flights within the European Union, bag tags are issued with green edges.

Prior to the 1990s, airline bag tags consisted of a paper tag attached with a string.

Current bag tags include a bar code.

They walk rather than ride in golf carts, take caddies, have lots of bag tags, play quickly and are not deterred by wind or rain.

These bag tags are printed using thermal or barcode printers that print on an adhesive paper stock.

But bag tags and boarding passes made with Bi statix technology could still be read even if they are folded, scuffed or ripped.

Delta Air Lines makes a frank appeal to on-the-job time wasters with a game called "Bag Tag."

Nevertheless, automated sorting of baggage using laser scanner arrays, known as automatic tag readers, to read bar-coded bag tags is standard at major airports.

It is common to see key rings, t-shirts, bag tags and other such products with this ribbon, especially for people who work in aviation or aviation enthusiasts.

International Air Transport Association airport codes are three-letter codes used to designate airports and used for bag tags.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is trying to standardize RFID bag tags.

The ticket agent "was being assisted by a trainee employee, who in his zeal to assist, attached the bag tag and loaded it on the belt," with no special screening, the documents said.

Par Club members and 100,000 golfers participate in the WGA Bag Tag Program support the Evans Scholars Foundation, one of the nation's largest individually funded scholarship programs.

The only answer was the swishing of the tarps as a rogue gust of wind kicked up, scattering old bag tags and finding all the parts of me that weren't covered by Kevin's coat.

"They have a party and they put out four bags, they don't know they have to have extra bag tags, and they only have two taken, two left behind," Mr. Hultgren said.

Bag tags, also known as baggage tags, baggage checks or luggage tickets, have traditionally been used by bus, train and airline companies to route passenger luggage that is checked on to the final destination.

But I suspected that after they valet-parked my vehicle, the trunk would be carefully searched, and the bag tags and the interior would be given a once-over in the hopes of finding a clue about the inspector.

The term license plate is the official term used by the IATA, the airlines, and the airports for the 10-digit numeric code on a bag tag issued by a carrier or handling agent at check-in.

For $12, members get a bag tag, a membership card and certificate, a poster showing how to spot the laid back golfer (a golf cart equipped with a chain saw is a sure sign), a newsletter and an invitation to L.B.G.A. tournaments.

At the league playoffs, which happen at the end of each seven-week cycle, teams compete for the glory of it as well as for embossed bag tags, which accumulate like so many scalps on the equipment bags of frequent winners.

When baggage is checked in at the ticket counter or with a sky cap (where it receives a bag tag indicating the passenger's itinerary), it is often placed onto a moving bag belt which carries the baggage to the bag room.

The bag tag which was previously affixed to the baggage during check-in is then read by a baggage handler and placed into the proper bag cart (usually a 4-wheeled trailer) or Unit Load Device (ULD; a machine-loadable container).

Heavily staffed with former C.I.A. agents, the Ackerman Group goes well beyond advising executives to photocopy their passports, wear blue jeans, leave corporate names off bag tags, never take gypsy cabs, keep valuables in money belts or ankle pouches and move around, wherever possible, in unmarked corporate cars or helicopters.

When your bags come off, rip off the HAV bag tags and any security stickers and zips (have a nail clippers in your carryon for the nylon zips) so your intl bags now look like domestic bags and ditch the tags/zips in the trash (no one cares).

Mr. Krueger explained how bag tags printed at luggage check-in counters would work: "As the bag tag goes through the printing mechanism to print the bar code and other information like 'Chicago to San Francisco,' it would be encoding the information into the silicon at the same time.

An important use of these codes is on baggage tags.

For a onetime $10 fee, members also receive baggage tags and a quarterly newsletter.

Part of the investment includes painting its images on ground vehicles, baggage tags and ticket envelopes.

Passengers will automatically be given a computer generated booking number and assigned baggage tag.

Computer-encoded baggage tags, read by laser, contain not only the destination but also where to reach the owner.

She brought out two envelopes girt with baggage tags and validations, looking very official.

Those gaudy little baggage tags identified the total strangers who would be intimate companions for the next 15 days.

You should keep hold of your baggage tags, as you will be required to show them when you leave the destination airport.

Also, he paid cash for his ticket and filled out his baggage tag only with a name and destination.

Ashtrays, baggage tags, newspaper headlines and photographs - all lend reality to the memory of the storied line.

Passengers then attach the baggage tag and drop the bag themselves at the baggage drop belt.

The cost of Air India's revamped corporate image, down to menu cards, baggage tags and stationery, will be about $35 million.

In airports where carriers share terminals and baggage claim areas, the decision whether to check baggage tags is made jointly.

Tickets and Baggage Tags.

He presented it to the ticket agent along with Mr. Tyrolin's baggage tags and managed, in the process, to drop half his heavy load.

The characters prominently displayed on baggage tags attached at airport check-in desks are an example of a way these codes are used.

C: Bar Code Baggage Tag: It tells not only where a bag is supposed to go, but also how to contact the owner.

They differ from IATA codes, which are generally used for airline timetables, reservations, and baggage tags.

Baggage tags are being issued at both Malaysia Airlines and Cathay Pacific check-in counters.

The humble baggage tag will become the focus of advertising for Delta Air Lines in a campaign centered on passenger satisfaction that begins on Saturday.

A donation of £14 pays for the planting of two trees to neutralise the carbon emissions (you also get a "Carbon Neutral" baggage tag).

Then he eyed the two heavy suitcases in the doorway with their dogeared Washington baggage tags, and the Duty Free carton of Marlboro beside them.

The judge then ruled that Mr. Goldberg had improperly questioned Mr. Fung the day before about the airline ticket receipt and baggage tag.

But the matter exploded again in the afternoon, when Mr. Goldberg displayed another exhibit that he did not realize had references to the same ticket receipt and baggage tag.

Interestingly, the baggage tag was still on it from the last time I'd checked it on a flight home from La Guardia to Miami International.