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Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

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Re: Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

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Post by thaumasiotes »

harha wrote: post #93
aliqot wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might get money for your troubles if your flight or luggage is delayed. For luggage being lost the maximum liability is $3,800 for domestic flights and about $1,800 for international flights https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/what-travelers-need-to-know-...

In theory yes, but in practice it could easily cost you more to deal with the airline and it might well be that you don’t have the receipts anymore. With another European airline I recently waited exactly one day less than the three weeks required for them to deliver a child seat. That’s almost three weeks of not having one to safely transport my child, no support or compensation. Since I was returning to my country…

> and it might well be that you don’t have the receipts anymore.

That seems pretty unlikely; the receipts now go to your email where you'd have to delete them intentionally.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

yazaddaruvala wrote: post #196
myself248 wrote: post #52

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Bingo! It hadn't occurred to me until just now, but you bet your butt there'll be an Airtag, a Trackr, and a Tile in my luggage next time.

It’s honestly so nice! I land, and before I check my texts I check for my bags. They have almost always already been reported to the find my network and I have peace of mind. Even at the baggage carousels. I just activate “Find” and it tells me if my bag is “near by” and rarely it’ll even give me the arrow pointing at my luggage. I didn’t even realize that I was previously micro-stressing about this stuff. But I can…

And with that, I’ve ordered AirTags for my luggage. Thank you kind stranger!

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

cm2187 wrote: post #104

Not sure what would be the motive for the airline to hide that the bag is lost. If it's not waiting for you at the baggage claim, you know it is lost, airtag or no airtag. Also not sure what good it does to the user either, to know in which particular hall of which particular terminal the luggage is right now. Much more useful outside of airports.

Gives airlines the freedom to not load luggage for operational reasons (plane too heavy, high paying cargo shipment became available very recently, fuel at this airport too expensive) and pretend it was a simple mistake to avoid (rightful) customer outbursts about being singled out. Airline staff can probably see as much on their screens but not allowed to share.

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Post by seanp2k2 »

Kaibeezy wrote: post #128
_hhkc wrote: post #30

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I agree with this. Mostly because I had a poor experience with one of their gate agents recently. They forced me to check my hand luggage because it was 2kg overweight. They don't uniformly enforce the hand luggage weight limit, their employees get to pick and choose passengers at the gate. The gate agent scoffed at me putting an AirTag in the bag that they were making me check.

> They don’t uniformly enforce… Because it’s a scam. They pick “enforcement” targets by guessing who seems likely to pay. I’ve never been charged when traveling solo. But with family or co-workers they have a shot at the “oh, just pay it, we have a plane to catch” gambit. I know their tricks and always refuse. Then I lay the bag down and start rifling through it like Yoda in Luke’s lunchbox. The long line of passenge…

"this bag is too heavy"

OK, I guess I'll...move a few things from there into another bag that is going onto the same flight, possibly the bag of someone I'm traveling with. Now you have reduced the flying weight of the plane by exactly 0 grams and made everyone a few percent more angry / delayed / stressed out.

This is a dumb policy.

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Post by [deleted] »

dmix wrote: post #84
kogir wrote: post #60

I was able to determine that someone with the exact same bag had taken mine from baggage claim and retrieve it from them before they left the airport with it. We both had much better vacations as a result. I’m going to keep mine in my luggage, sorry.

Why would you stop? I highly doubt they’ll invest in the means to actually stop it across every airport.

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Post by woah »

svnpenn wrote: post #73
rconti wrote: post #58

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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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If we start allowing airtags in luggage, who knows what's next?

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Post by HWR_14 »

harha wrote: post #93
aliqot wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might get money for your troubles if your flight or luggage is delayed. For luggage being lost the maximum liability is $3,800 for domestic flights and about $1,800 for international flights https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/what-travelers-need-to-know-...

In theory yes, but in practice it could easily cost you more to deal with the airline and it might well be that you don’t have the receipts anymore. With another European airline I recently waited exactly one day less than the three weeks required for them to deliver a child seat. That’s almost three weeks of not having one to safely transport my child, no support or compensation. Since I was returning to my country…

> That’s almost three weeks of not having one to safely transport my child, no support or compensation.

Why not just buy a new one and charge the airline for it?

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Post by Kye »

gnfargbl wrote: post #136
sigwinch28 wrote: post #112

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> Note that the reason for airport mode is a courtesy to cell-phone carriers. This doesn’t track. What about trains?

The cell tower network is designed to cope with devices located on the surface of the planet, i.e. where the geometry between the handsets and the tower is roughly two-dimensional. I am also unconvinced that handsets on aeroplanes are really a problem for the network, but trains aren't the counterexample you're making them out to be.

Flight patterns are also pretty consistent. Tower planners have probably given some thought to it.
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