Massive QF Fail [Airline moved PAX to earlier flight-did not inform PAX]

[Quickstatus]

It was re tagged, yes.
Had a QF CBR-SYD-NRT in 2013 turn into QF/CX CBR-MEL-HKG-NRT due to weather in SYD. Bag had a new tag printed.
The US reroute had a hand written tag stuck over the printed tag.
One of my transits via SIN last year also got the bag retaged (also with a hand written tag stuck over the original tag). That was an extension to where the bag had been checked to originally. During my holiday last year, I had PEK-HKG-SIN-HND-ITM and ITM-HND-SIN-MEL-CBR.

Just don't do IB>BA baggage transfers in MAD. Every time I've done that, somethings happened. Either the bag got misplaced, or the system refused to check the bag past MAD.

I wonder how they find the bags to retag. Manual?, machine scan and flagged?

 

[kevrosmith]

I wonder how they find the bags to retag. Manual?, machine scan and flagged?

Probably the same way they find bags under the hood when someone is a no-show... manual and looking for a number or name.

 

[madrooster]

I wonder how they find the bags to retag. Manual?, machine scan and flagged?

Depending on the DCS, you can put the bag tag number in and put a bag stop on it so that it will flag when a baggage handler scans the bag tag. I've had QF put a bag stop on a bag at LAX before (due to AA check in incompetence of not knowing how to short tag a bag) and this was the procedure.