Alaska Airlines will let flyers use digital bag tags to save time and paper

The tags include an e-paper display to show your flight info. | Image: Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines says it's becoming the first US-based airline to roll out support for electronic bag tags, small programmable devices with e-paper displays that are designed to replace the paper tags currently in use. It plans to launch the new program in phases, and it'll initially be focused on San Jose airport in California. The airline will initially give out 2,500 of the tags for free to its frequent flye...