Airlines don’t lose luggage, airports do. Airlines just carry luggage.
Airlines have some liberty to say "We can't load this luggage" or "We can't load X lbs/% of luggage" for operational reasons
Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do see how they'd find it bothersome. Imagine what it must be like that the situation before was: "Oh no my baggage is lost!" "Oooh that's rough! We'll let ya know!" then nothing. Where now what it might be like is: "Oh no my baggage is lost at XYZ airport at your terminal" and that accountability is somewhat forced now because they can't just say it wasn't found or it is 'in transit' when it really isn't.
How is it bothersome? People are doing their job and telling them where the bag is. They should be happy when customers go the extra mile to fix their broken system.
It’s not broken for them.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do see how they'd find it bothersome. Imagine what it must be like that the situation before was: "Oh no my baggage is lost!" "Oooh that's rough! We'll let ya know!" then nothing. Where now what it might be like is: "Oh no my baggage is lost at XYZ airport at your terminal" and that accountability is somewhat forced now because they can't just say it wasn't found or it is 'in transit' when it really isn't.
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?
You're thinking of the frequent flyer programs. An airline, via its FF program, is a proprietary central bank that sometimes flies people (and occasionally, even their luggage!) from A to B.
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#234TL;DR: Lufthansa argues that baggage trackers fall in the category of portable electronic devices, and are therefore subject to dangerous goods regulations issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
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#235The author states: >"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.
United does, Emirates does.
They're just exposing internal scans "bag dropped off", "bag in X storage area", "bag loaded on tug train" and an abstracted "bag loaded on plane" which is probably just a single scan of the tug train barcode, much like USPS will scan bundles of mail instead of individual items.
Every airline has this functionality internally. Even the really small ones. They just don't choose to publicize it.
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#236Can we put a cell tower on the plane?
To be most aesthetic, please disguise it as a palm tree... or maybe an additional tail fin?
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#237The cat is out of the bag. There is no way that people are going to stop putting AirTags in their luggage, at least not while airlines are still constantly losing luggage and fighting people on reimbursement.
> at least not while airlines are still constantly losing luggage Does that actually happen to people still? I thought it was just a 90s meme. I get a push notification every time they move my bag anywhere. 'Accepted into the system', 'loaded onto the plane', 'unloaded off the plane', 'popped out at the carousel'. Seems pretty bullet proof these days.
Asia and the US have a much better track record than Europe. Like, your bag is 5-8x more likely to get lost in Europe.
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#238Funny they even sell them in their own shop:
https://www.worldshop.eu/de/apple-airtag-ortungsgeraet-1er-p...
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also sounds incredibly dumb when you think about how checked luggage gets scanned and searched. Isn't it typically after you've dropped it off with airline staff and have walked away towards a terminal gate? And when they find an airtag in checked luggage, how can they tell by looking at the airtag itself if "transmission function" has been turned off??? It seems to me they either have to throw away all airtags th…
>throw away all airtags I have no doubt that they'll do exactly this. They'll likely stick them into an RF-blocking pouch first, then destroy them all. You won't get it back, you won't get any compensation, and they'll point to their policies as to why.
You’re aiming to project maximum evil. While emotionally satisfying, it does not usually have good predictive powers. What you should be doing is to predict maximum laziness instead. As in, they will probably only destroy airtags inside a particular luggage when they know that the luggage is already lost and it would be embarrasing for them if its location was known.