Qantas Airlines has introduced a new kind of luggage tag called the Q Bag Tag. The airline is calling it the next generation luggage tag.

There’s little bits and pieces of technology—like an RFID chip—in the new permanent bag tags, and once you’re at the airport you can use one of the updated airport kiosks to check-in. Your luggage information will automatically be linked up with your boarding documents, and you’ll be on your way to security.

Right now the bag tags can only be utilized around Australia, in cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth as well as plenty of smaller airports and cities. Of course they’re planning to take over the world with these new little bag tags, so stay tuned.

Frequent flyers get these neat little slices of travel tech along with their fancy flyer credentials, but for the rest of us there’s still hope. Qantas is selling these directly for right around $50, but be sure to affix it securely to your bag. Unfortunately, Qantas isn’t giving out any freebies for lost or damaged tags.

At the moment, the only real drawback appears to be, if something goes wrong between the tag and check-in transfer of information, no one will know where your bag is supposed to go. Otherwise, a passenger’s luggage is tracked nearly constantly. Combined with Qantas’ RFID enabled membership cards and check-in should only take a few minutes, streamlining the entire process.

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