Qantas bag tags colours

[JRR]

That's a good point, as is the earlier one about possibly being exempted from bag weighing shenanigans at the gate.

Nobody takes notice of my AN tags!!!

I’ve had some oversized cabin bags overlooked before after status noted

Also re AN tags ... don’t worry some of do notice a fellow true believer. Always cheers me up before I remember the New Zealanders.

 

[Vic]

How do you know people’s intent? I have them on hand luggage so I don’t get stopped in priority queues. Ok you can buy them on eBay but that isn’t the point. I also can’t be bothered taking them off and then putting them back on when the bags I use for hand luggage is sometimes put through check in. It’s not more ‘look at me’ than that.

I dare say thinking the bag tag indicates real status level and hence will help for priority queues is exactly the intent in question. The only way to check current status is via boarding pass or qantas card. Bag tags mean nothing. But at least you don't put your tags on a bag what will clearly never get checked. A handbag is the most egregious example I've seen.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

As I have not done anything with my tags are they trackable? Can anyone registered the tag to themselves? Or is it already associated with a Qantas FF number ?

I believe that once a Qtag has been used by someone (doesn't have to be who they were issued to) baggage services can see the last flight the Qtag was associated to.

I read somewhere that this also plays into the upgrade lotto system. It is my understanding that upgrade requests are prioritised as CLPO, PO, CLWP, WP, CLSG, SG, etc. etc.

I have recently put the P1 coasters on my hand luggage in the vain hope I get left alone if I am on a fight that is subject to to the weighing of hand luggage fiasco.

.....or could make it worse.

Even though I’ve flown a hell of a lot I’m still confused how to actually use the coasters for flights. I’ve always been a bit hesitant and tend to prefer the old fashioned tags. Can someone explain how you go about using them? Is it literally at the self check just have them on and then go through the normal process?

Do mobile or OLCI then arrive at airport and head directly to autobag drop. Scan QR code for mobile boarding pass under scanner or tap QF ff card on 'Q' symbol on front of the bag drop. Place suitcase on belt and the rfid scanner underneath the rubber belt will activate the Qtag and send the bag off.

If you do need to checkin at the airport and go to a kiosk, when prompted "are you checking bags" you can just select no. If you accidentally say yes make sure you tick the box with '0' (when selecting number of bags) at the end of the checkin process because you don't want the kiosk to print out a paper tag when you have a Qtag as well. This causes issues at the bag drop and you'll need to remove one of the tags for the bag to be injected.

 

[Scott K]

I dare say thinking the bag tag indicates real status level and hence will help for priority queues is exactly the intent in question. The only way to check current status is via boarding pass or qantas card. Bag tags mean nothing. But at least you don't put your tags on a bag what will clearly never get checked. A handbag is the most egregious example I've seen.

A chap with WP tags on his man-bag got on to a brisbane flight and sat next to me a few months ago. I almost laughed.

 

[Pushka]

A chap with WP tags on his man-bag got on to a brisbane flight and sat next to me a few months ago. I almost laughed.

I really don’t get the angst with this. Maybe he just wanted to identify his bag. Or had to take it off his checkin luggage as he was flying overseas and didn’t want to lose it in the flurry of checking in. Why do people assume it’s a tosser thing to do.

 

[get me outta here]

He's probably just forgetful and often puts it down and loses it.

Thee old chap I help put his man bag in the shopping trolley and drove home forgetting it in the trolley in the underground car park. He and I went back the next day to ask around and I just happened to see it still in a trolley now back in the row at Coles. Luckily, no one else noticed it.

A chap with WP tags on his man-bag got on to a brisbane flight and sat next to me a few months ago. I almost laughed.

 

[Scott K]

I really don’t get the angst with this. Maybe he just wanted to identify his bag. Or had to take it off his checkin luggage as he was flying overseas and didn’t want to lose it in the flurry of checking in. Why do people assume it’s a tosser thing to do.

Angst? Slight amusement really. It could be all of those things. But when you see it on a bag that is barely large enough to hold an iPad, visually it does look comical. My personal view was the passenger decided to be intentionally ironic.

 

[Vic]

I really don’t get the angst with this. Maybe he just wanted to identify his bag. Or had to take it off his checkin luggage as he was flying overseas and didn’t want to lose it in the flurry of checking in. Why do people assume it’s a tosser thing to do.

yeah, people forget their $10000 hand bags all the time. Definitely, an improvement to add a qantas Q tag to a chanel or hermes handbag...

 

[Pushka]

yeah, people forget their $10000 hand bags all the time. Definitely, an improvement to add a qantas Q tag to a chanel or hermes handbag...

What?

 

[CX913]

If I find my coasters i can give away here on AFF only gold and plat ones

Well, you can give it to me

 

[jpp42]

Well, you learn something every day. I never had any idea it was considered gauche to put the Q tags on hand luggage. I have a gold one on my backpack (the grey WP ones are on my check-in luggage). My reasoning was that it's linked to my QFF number and it would help reunite me with my bag if lost. Sounds like that's not actually true.

I actually would prefer a red one (for my checked luggage) if there is some way to order those? As someone mentioned they are kind of the most noticeable.

 

[Pushka]

Well, you learn something every day. I never had any idea it was considered gauche to put the Q tags on hand luggage. I have a gold one on my backpack (the grey WP ones are on my check-in luggage). My reasoning was that it's linked to my QFF number and it would help reunite me with my bag if lost. Sounds like that's not actually true.

I actually would prefer a red one (for my checked luggage) if there is some way to order those? As someone mentioned they are kind of the most noticeable.

It’s only linked of you put it through checked luggage. Don’t worry, I have tags on my carry on all the time. I don’t care what others think, it suits me to do so.

 

[mrsterryn]

I don't use the Qantas ones. I think my princess tags are probable more mocked than those lol considering my age

 

[offshore171]

One thing to say about the QF tags - as ID tags go, they are bloody durable.

Generic bag tags that you get at luggage stores are lucky to survive a couple of trips.

 

[Max Samuels]

I cannot tell the difference between the old Plat tags and the silver ones.... my Plat tags are so faded that I am really not sure what colour the are anymore

 

[ChrisMars]

I use my WP tag on carry on, I just hope it somehow help get a better treatment; I have no evidence of this happening though.

 

[Pushka]

I use my WP tag on carry on, I just hope it somehow help get a better treatment; I have no evidence of this happening though.

It won’t.

 

[Pleb Status]

I might need to give this 'bad boy' an airing one day and see what happens. It has never been used as they look like s#!t (particularly on hand luggage)....

Are P1 tags still getting big money on Ebay? As an 'as new' tag (with no writing on the back etc), it would do alright....

 

[RichardMEL]

That's a few years old that WP1 set

Anyway speaking of which... I sometimes have an AN tag on my carry on. #old

 

[Pleb Status]

That's a few years old that WP1 set

Anyway speaking of which... I sometimes have an AN tag on my carry on. #old

Yep - 2013 for the tags most likely. I have been off the Qcoolaid for a few years now....