During this summer’s travel season, Chaos popularized tracking devices for suitcases that help pinpoint their exact location if lost. But the airlines don’t want passengers to use them.
“Take off the flashlight”
Although Apple’s AirTag tracking device wasn’t the first of its kind, the American company managed to popularize it at its best during the last year and a half of its existence. During this year’s summer travel season, the airlines themselves helped a lot they were losing more suitcases than usual.
Passengers have begun buying wholesale trackers for the peace of mind of seeing on their mobile phone that their bags are with them after taking their seats on the plane. The idea that a person lands in London, New York or Singapore, but their luggage is somewhere else, has simply taken over and “forced” passengers to spend extra money. Jbut it’s all a matter of psychology, because even if the passenger sees that his baggage hasn’t been loaded, he can’t do anything about it. However, it can provide the airline with relatively accurate information on where the suitcase is during the subsequent search for stray suitcases. But it seems so the airlines are not at all interested in this aid.
AirTags are still uncharted territory when it comes to regulating the international aviation industry. “Tracking devices are not yet included in the regulations,” a Lufthansa spokesperson said in the spring. According to the German national carrier, this means that, from a legal point of view, they are smartphones. According to the German airline, just like iPhones, they can only be carried in hand luggage. Alternatively, you can also remove the battery from your AirTag and then store it in your suitcase. But at that moment, of course, the whole device is useless.
No more lying
The real reason airlines don’t want us to use AirTags or similar devices is because that for this we have the upper hand over them. We know exactly where the suitcase got stuck and they can’t tell us fairy tales and lies about what happened and that the suitcase is already on its way when it hasn’t moved from its place for two days. They can’t just hang balls on their noses. For example, if we go to wait another hour at the baggage carousel, it will surely arrive anyway, even if the baggage claim of the flight ends half an hour ago and the AirTag signals thousands of kilometers away.
My recent experience in London Heathrow can prove this. The baggage claim is complete, the suitcase is still nowhere to be found, the AirTag location indicates that the baggage is still traveling to Lisbon airport. So I go to complaints, where I show the location of the AirTag on my mobile. “But Mr. AirTags are terribly unreliable. The suitcase will surely arrive, get in and wait “, they told me. I wanted to reply curtly:”Seriously? And are your services reliable?“
Even the fact that the AirTag location had been updated two minutes earlier did not convince the Heathrow worker of the lie at first. After nearly half an hour of debate and my insistence on calling the baggage handlers to confirm that they had already unloaded everything from my flight – which the service staff eventually confirmed – acknowledged that my baggage was indeed locked up. in Lisbon and will arrive on the earliest possible flight. But again it was a lie because for the next two days the trunk did not move. It finally arrived after three days.
It reminds you a little of the history of cell phones, which once had to be turned off and put away because you didn’t really know what the cell phone signal could do to the plane or its navigation systems …
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