![]() It can therefore happen that travellers of both categories mix in airports common areas. In large airports, it is not always possible to separate travellers flows according to the point of departure of their travel, whether they started their journey in an EU or in a non-EU airport. The point of them is explained clearly there: Notably, all flights from the EU have their baggage tags printed with a green-edged label. ![]() It does not really matter whether you go through several EU and non-EU airports, take a domestic flight, an intra-EU flight, or even transit outside the EU between two EU airports your bag will have the right tags regardless. Incidentally, you can easily have non-green-tagged luggage on an intra-EU flight, for example if that flight is the last leg following an intercontinental flight. That's simple and efficient and good enough for its purpose. You put paper with a green stripe in the printer and you're done with it. You don't need to designate some check-in desks for intra-EU travel, interface with existing systems, train employees to handle EU luggage differently or add any logic or software at all. ![]() That way everything is tagged very easily, merely by virtue of being checked in at an EU airport and it's sure to be correctly tagged whenever you travel within the EU. Basically, green tags are not for travel withing the EU or anything like that, it's for luggage originating in the EU. It's indeed kind of pointless if you are leaving the EU… but so would be devising a system to tag luggage according to their destination, complete with two types of labels, a system to handle layovers, etc.
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