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The high rate of lost luggage by airlines is AirTag’s killer app. It’s becoming standard practice to track your own luggage.
by cainxinth 4y ago
The high rate of lost luggage by airlines is AirTag’s killer app. It’s becoming standard practice to track your own luggage.
- ghaff 4y agoAt least United has a tracking app that seems to work pretty well these days. But, yes, not that I check luggage a lot but I do throw an AirTag into checked luggage and it seems to do a good job of telling you if your luggage has made the plane/connection.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThe value is in having objective information that an airline/airport/airport employee cannot lie or feign ignorance about.
- ghaff 4y agoI'm not concerned about them lying so much as the bag just not being scanned for some reason. I'm not really that concerned about their computer lying to me (in the sense of providing information it knows to be wrong).
- michaelt 4y agoI think the issue is: 1. If the airline had kept track of your bag properly, it wouldn't have got lost in the first place (At least for a literal enough definition of 'lost') so the moment I land without my luggage, their data is already suspect. 2. The airline might not expose its data to you - or might only do so after waiting in a phone queue for 30 minutes, or only in a very low-resolution form.
- ghaff 4y agore: 2 United's app does give you the information directly although obviously their information could be wrong for some reason. In any case, an independent source of information is always good because if the two sources agree, you can be pretty sure of where the bag is actually located.