PPRuNe Forums - Bag Drop

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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.

I would suggest (without being certain or authoritative) that the bag has been "bag dropped" when either it has been dispatched from the check-in bag drop or has passed a bar code reader on the injection belt.

I think it has to be "in the baggage system". Simply having a label printed or being sat on set of scales doesn't sound to me as though it has been "bag dropped".

Why get so close to the cut off time ?