Lufthansa abandons AirTag ban
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Lufthansa abandons AirTag ban
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#2I won't be flying Lufthansa anytime soon.
I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.
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#3From what I've read Lufthansa never banned AirTags, regardless of what a misinformed customer service person on Twitter may have thought.
They clarified their guidelines to say that active transmitters were not allowed in the hold because they couldn't be put on to flight mode (pretty much correct according to ICAO guidelines), and then after all this blew up later clarified their position by confirming that AirTags do not count (also correct).
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#4They are just afraid of more hate online
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#5I won't be flying Lufthansa anytime soon. I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.
… because they banned AirTags? That seems a bit of an overreaction.
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#6I won't be flying Lufthansa anytime soon. I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.
Your logic is flawed.
If they really did it like mentioned than they did everything right: banning it then analysing it and then greenlighting it
If the analysis would have shown an issue you would have been protected BY Lufthansa and standing up vs just not caring.
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#7Classic. Someone gets a lower-level customer service rep on twitter to make a statement based on incorrect and incomplete information about Airtags in compliance with regulation.
Media blows it up into this insane thing, that Lufthansa is evil, and doesn't want you to track your bags, so they can lose it with no repercussions.
Lufthansa clarifies things (once again, in line with law) - and then the media uses works like "face plant", "baffling" and "awkward". Assigning emotional context that ridicules Lufthansa.
This plays out all the time with the media and is a huge part of the reason why confidence in the media is at a all time low.
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#8They are just afraid of more hate online
Yes the online hate. This crazy online hate.
Just that 99% of normal people were probably not even aware.of this topic but hey online hate
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#9I won't be flying Lufthansa anytime soon. I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.
You swallowed the yellow irrational outrage pill. Lufthansa had a customer service rep who (correctly) stated that things with transmitters must have a airplane mode (also true) - without knowing enough about airtags.
Now you are assigning an emotional context ("entrust my life", "incompetent") to a simple question of if Airtags apply?