It's crazy to me that this is the first US airline to get such a thing. The Australian airline QANTAS has had this since 2011. Not just that, but you walk in to

It's crazy to me that this is the first US airline to get such a thing. The Australian airline QANTAS has had this since 2011. Not just that, but you walk in to the terminal, check yourself in on a machine, tell the machine if you want a printed tag or have an electronic tag, then go sling your bag into a pod that has a conveyor + scale in the bottom, a bunch of laser scanners and a tag reader. The bag is weighed and checked in quickly, and at no point do you need to see a counter person to check in. The main airport I use has about 20 of the scanners, and they also have been running well for 10+ years. There are other, larger airports with more of them. Your luggage is tracked end to end.