Edit: Thanks for taking the time out to reply. I’m enjoying reading all the different explanations and view points.
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I’ve recently started putting AirTags into my luggage, removed the piezo speaker and stashed in the zipped lining of my checked bags.
On my last 3 trips, my bags have gone through several more airports than my own flights have gone through. The very last trip, the bag was lost for 2 days until they found it and delivered it to the hotel.
It happens, but the AirTags have been the best solution to seeing exactly where the bag is, so when you report it as missing/lost, you can give them exact locations and specifications of where/when it was last.
I can’t recommend it enough. I’m an Android person that carries both iPhone and Android phones.
Yes, there are non-Apple variants of these tags, but the majority of the traveling population carries iPhones, so the precision is much higher when trying to locate bags using AirTags vs. Tile or other branded solutions.
Also, keep in mind that the logistics in airports is run on software that hasn’t changed in 60+ years, backed by decades-old COBOL and Lisp and Fortran running on mainframes. It’s not modern, and it’s not running in containers nor Kubernetes clusters. It’s prehistoric.
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