Does anyone here put tracking devices like AirTags and Tile in their luggage? If so, has it been beneficial?

And according to this guy on Twitter, CR2032 batteries (which power AirTags) aren't banned from flights, just in case you have any other devices that run on this button cell.

Edit: It's a CR2032 battery.

Received a huge pile of badwill over the last 24 hours. LH had to change…

Yes. Just came back from a trip to Italy. I was able to track my bag through the airport on connecting flights.

I put one on all my luggage. I’ve had bags lost before and had a close call where they lost my child’s car seat, but turns out it was just misplaced.

Now whenever I land I just check my phone and can confirm myself where they are and help airport staff find them if they “lost” them.

I wish I had. I had luggage that got lost for multiple weeks while I was on vacation. Turns out my luggage only made it to the first destination on my three flight trip.

2032*. A LOT of car key fobs use the same battery.

If for nothing else, they are great for reducing anxiety over if your luggage has travelled with you.

God forbid that someone try to hold airlines accountable. All of a sudden the trackers will be reclassified as "dangerous goods".

We're tired of our governments' collective inaction on passenger rights.

> The carrier responded by saying that it had “not banned airtags and there is no guideline or regulation by Lufthansa to ban airtags. There is a standing ICAO regulation on such devices, but this has nothing to do with Lufthansa or any other carrier.”

So they are banning AirTags; they're just pretending ICAO says they have to.

Airport/airline has just lost my luggage. They then play these BS games “it’s not us, call them.. even though they will tell you call someone else” & “we’ll try our best but probably nothing we can do”, etc.

Don’t care if it’s allowed or not, I will be using AirTag in all checked luggage here on out.

Their social media was posting that they were banned, having those posts deleted, and then posting it again later.

> “IATA policy states unequivocally that, “devices in checked baggage must be completely switched off.”

I wonder how they even intend on enforcing that. First off, they need to detect the tag’s presence. Other than actively looking for them visually when x-ray scanning, I can’t see how else they could.

Tags don’t interact with devices that are not paired with them, unless actively “traveling together” for a given amount of time (anti-stalking feature). Can they be located using signal detectors?

Once physically located, how can they determine the tag is on since it doesn’t light up or have an active UI?

Wtf is that spin to win pop up? Literally the biggest pop up i've ever seen. I cannot stand websites like that.

I do. It lets me know my luggage is in my general vicinity. I can usually see them while I’m sitting in the plane and they are in the cargo bay. Also if they are waiting at baggage claim or not.

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A company's failures/incompetence SHOULD be exposed.

And apparently corporate simps do too. Your enabling shitty things and don't even see it.

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AirTags are broadcasting on Bluetooth a ton. It’d be easy to figure out if a bag had one.

How easy? What type of Bluetooth detectors?

But now checked bags are $30 while checked tracking devices are an additional $50.

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$10 of hardware. Pretty much anything that does Bluetooth LE. I could see them with a simple ESPHome script. You can’t identify specific ones of course, but you can know a AirTag is there.

Gotcha. Started reading up on this. Very interesting. Thanks!

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They just wish they could.

If airlines were smart they would make deal with Apple to use Apple’s tech themselves since the Apple detection ecosystem is everywhere. The might be able to fix or at least know about some errors in realtime before their customers do.

“Our hands are tied!” Vigorously funds ICAO

Has anyone that has had an AirTag in their luggage actually been able to convince someone from the airline you know where your bags are and act on it? I think the concept of this great. But the reality is in my experience no one at an airline will action the information you give them. In the end it’s 100x more frustrating.