Bag Drop
As I have mostly loaded my own bags, I, now as SLF, would like to determine how, when or where your bags have to be to meet the "bag drop" time, 40 minutes before scheduled departure.
Is it;
When your baggage tags have been printed?
When your bags have been placed on the baggage scales?
When the bags have been pass the first barcode reader?
If it is anything other than when the tags have been printed, you could find yourself stuck in a queue, have machines rejecting bags because the tags are not being read and miss the time.
Another scenario is f you have mum, dad and three kids. The first two bags get accepted by the machine and the next three are rejected as the time has passed.
I have asked carriers but they cannot or will not give a definite answer.