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Luggage tag

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

nounCommon term

In travel & airport english, luggage tag means: A label attached to a bag: either the airline's printed tag with a barcode and destination code, or your own tag with your name and contact details.

In Turkish: bagaj etiketi, isim etiketi

How it is used

At check-in, staff attach a tag and give the passenger the stub, often stuck on the boarding pass, which is needed if the bag goes missing. The three-letter code on the tag (for example IST, FRA or JFK) shows where the bag is going. Also called a baggage tag or bag tag.

Example sentences

  1. Could you check the luggage tag? It should say ADB for Izmir.

  2. Put a luggage tag with your phone number on every suitcase.

Common collocations

  • baggage tag
  • bag tag stub
  • attach a luggage tag
  • name and address tag
  • checked baggageBags you hand over at check-in or bag drop; they travel in the hold of the plane and you collect them at baggage claim after landing.
  • bag dropA desk or machine at the airport where passengers who have already checked in online hand over their checked bags.
  • lost luggageBags that did not arrive with you at the end of a flight, or that the airline cannot find; many turn up later and are delivered to you.
  • baggage claimThe area of an airport, after passport control, where checked bags come out on moving belts and passengers collect them.

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