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>"While some airlines provide baggage tracking, it’s awesome to always know exactly where your checked bag is."
Can someone say which airlines provide baggage tracking and it works exactly?
It's amazing that in 2022 baggage tracking is somehow too exotic for carriers as a matter of course.
Note that the reason for airport mode is a courtesy to cell-phone carriers. It's not any air safety issue. Rather, 300-500 cell phones all trying to contact the next cell tower, multiple times per minute, would wreak havoc on cell service. https://www.inverse.com/article/51015-cell-phone-use-on-airp... At one point, when both cell phones and laptops were new, there was perhaps a risk to the airplane's electronics. Mo…
> Note that the reason for airport mode is a courtesy to cell-phone carriers. This doesn’t track. What about trains?
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I get that it's inconvenient and could be used nefariously. I'm not sure what kinds of worker protections airline staff have in Europe, but I can see why it might be problematic that I'm tracking the employee as they drive their van full of lost luggage to my hotel. Still, it's my stuff, so I'm going to keep putting AirTags in every bag I travel with. I'm sorry, but.. what are they going to do? Ban me from the airlin…
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(26) Baggage equipped with lithium battery(ies) must be carried as carry-on baggage unless the battery(ies) is removed from the baggage. Removed battery(ies) must be carried in accordance with the provision for spare batteries prescribed in paragraph (a)(18) of this section. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to baggage equipped with lithium batteries not exceeding:
(i) For lithium metal batteries, a lithium content of 0.3 grams; or
(ii) For lithium ion batteries, a Watt-hour rating of 2.7 Wh.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/s...
“ Lufthansa claims that the transmission function needs to be turned off during flight when in checked luggage, just as is required for cell phones, laptops, etc.” On my phone, turning on airplane mode seems to disable the cell and wifi radios (with wifi able to be toggled back on) but Bluetooth defaults to staying on.
It seems to me they either have to throw away all airtags they find in luggage, or they have to check everyones' phones inside the airplane before they take off, or they're just bluffing.
Or let Fedex open a check in counter at airports with advice on how to receive packages at nearest fedex office?
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I get that it's inconvenient and could be used nefariously. I'm not sure what kinds of worker protections airline staff have in Europe, but I can see why it might be problematic that I'm tracking the employee as they drive their van full of lost luggage to my hotel. Still, it's my stuff, so I'm going to keep putting AirTags in every bag I travel with. I'm sorry, but.. what are they going to do? Ban me from the airlin…
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I thought they have the no explosive cr2032 or thereabouts…
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So inconvenient for them to do what they were contracted to do: fly you and your luggage from A to B. Can’t they just get free money?
Every job, every person, every industry mistakes happen. You can minimise them with better systems but its never going to disappear
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> like silently cancelling the return leg of flights if you don’t make the outbound I don't know about the "silently" part, but this is standard practice for most (all?) airlines.
It’s immoral and illegal in Europe but sure quite a few airlines still try this on.