Checking In Bags at Alghero Airport
When departing from Alghero Airport there is one tip that may avoid some confusion and emabarrasment.
After you have checked in your hold luggage and had the labels stuck on etc. - the check in staff make you take the suitcases back and you have to take them over to be put through a scanner . After the scanner the bags go on a conveyor belt to be loaded by staff on to the planes.
I saw at least one unfortunate couple who were very confused and ended up taking the big bags into the boarding gates to carry on to the plane! Of course they were stopped and had to rush back and try and get the suitcases through the scanner and hope they got on to the plane. This seems a very strange practice - something I have not seen at any other airport - but I haven’t been to that many airports. Why can they not just send all the bags via conveyor belts to be scanned. Maybe this was a temporary measure - I hope so!