Ask yourself how many times you’ve been on flights that have resulted in misconnects, delays, or cancellations then extrapolate the impacts of enforcing PPBM (positive passenger bag match) across the thousands of airports and tens of thousands of flights across the US…
Someone even did a study on this: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.49.2.181.13529
All things considered, we projected the following:
•If international-style bag match were applied in the U.S. domestic air system, roughly one-seventh of flights would suffer departure delays, which would average 7 minutes long. The mean departure delay over all flights— including the six-sevenths that would not be affected— would be about 1 minute.
Doesn’t sound like much but that would equate to billions of dollars annually to the airlines.
