Originally Posted by Swedish Steve
Yes they are called bingo cards. When the bags are loaded into the containers, a piece of the tag is peeled off and placed on a bingo card. This is just a piece of A4 card wiith numbered boxes on it for these labels. One card per container and one sticker per box and you can easily see how many bags in the container. An LD3 takes around 50 bags. When a passenger no shows you can easily pick which container their bags are in, but then it is always the container that went in first, so you have to take off the others to get to it.
From another outsider: Can it be that difficult to have a system where such a manual bingo card system is replaced by a barcode scan? If it worked, it would cut down the amount of time spent searching (although I can't help thinking that we're only talking about something like 50% more bags than a 744). Or would it be too prone to error?