The End of Lost Luggage? RFID Slowly Coming to Airports

Luggage today has barcodes that are used to automatically track the bag around the system. Using RFID instead of barcodes only helps with a higher read-rate (97% vs. 80% - but I'm pretty sure that's per scan, and if a bag is scanned e.g. five times the aggregate rate is close to five nines), it doesn't help you if your bag is tagged for Chicago and you're in LA, of if the label comes of the bag.

The article makes if sound like airlines throw the bag into a big black hole with closed eyes and prays that some deity will have the mercy to place the bag on the right flight. They don't. I'm pretty sure that virtually all cases of lost luggage is caused by mis-labeling or a physical breakdown somewhere, and an operations officer deciding the plane need to go, even if a few bags are no there yet.