Lufthansa is starting to ban Airtags in Checked Luggage.

[addamas]

This whole thread seems based on fake and/or confusing news. See the article below:
Lufthansa says it is not banning AirTags from its flights despite tweets claiming otherwise

Thank you for solving this misinformation

 

[deeddawg]

Regarding that picture with all the luggage, would AirTags really help you in finding it? When I look on my iPhone screen to check my luggage at home, it basically gives me a circular shaded area that encompasses my apartment, a few other apartments and the majority of the street outside my window. It's a pretty wide area, enough to encompass all of that baggage.

What model phone do you have?

With iphone 11 and above, once you're within ~25ft of the airtag, Precision Finding gives you direction and distance.

How to Use Precision Finding to Locate an AirTag With iPhone 11 and iPhone 12

Apple's AirTags are small, button-shaped devices that are designed to be attached to items like keys and wallets to allow these accessories to be tracked using Bluetooth right alongside Apple devices in the Find My app. If you've set up an AirTag and attached it to an item, you can track said...

www.macrumors.com

 

[deeddawg]

This whole thread seems based on fake and/or confusing news. See the article below:
Lufthansa says it is not banning AirTags from its flights despite tweets claiming otherwise

Good info, nice to have confirmation.

Perhaps @oofio2461 might update the original post and thread title?

 

[Clingpeach]

Regarding that picture with all the luggage, would AirTags really help you in finding it? When I look on my iPhone screen to check my luggage at home, it basically gives me a circular shaded area that encompasses my apartment, a few other apartments and the majority of the street outside my window. It's a pretty wide area, enough to encompass all of that baggage.

Airport staff do not care to inform the passenger that the delayed luggage has even arrived. If it were not for my AirTag I would have had no idea that the baggage had arrived at its final destination. I take a pic of my luggage before boarding and showed it. My luggage was retrieved

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Lufthansa has reversed their decision.

 

[patmondal]

The only documented danger is to the airlines' reputation by exposing their incompetence.

Who wants to fly with such a technologically inept company once they prove that their decision making is done by nincompoops!

 

[patmondal]

Regarding that picture with all the luggage, would AirTags really help you in finding it? When I look on my iPhone screen to check my luggage at home, it basically gives me a circular shaded area that encompasses my apartment, a few other apartments and the majority of the street outside my window. It's a pretty wide area, enough to encompass all of that baggage.

Every time I fly, I put my wallet and key AirTags in my checked bags. I always see them at the place I dropped them off; then by the plane with me at the gate. Then again somewhere at the gate at destination and then by me when it comes to baggage claim. No idea how effective it would be when trying to find bag amount a huge pile of other bags; but if it went to a different city, I would know where it went at least.

 

[MTShipp]

Lufthansa's Twitter feed says they're banned.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1578879849577385984

In case that gets deleted:



Diclaimer: I am not "David".

TIL “David” has an Android and does not like AirTags /s

 

[OllyW]

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