Article: How to Stop Airlines Losing Your Checked Baggage

[LoaderTosh]

I always put a large printed sheet inside the luggage with my name, country, city, phone number and email on it.

… and the airlines lost it?

 

[StingyGeek]

What a difference a year makes. Early last year, Airlines were unhappy about AirTags, but now more and more of them are embracing them.

Here is a list of airlines that currently support AirTags:

• Aer Lingus
• Air Canada
• Air New Zealand
• American Airlines
• Austrian Airlines
• British Airways
• Brussels Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Eurowings
• Iberia
• KLM
• Lufthansa
• Qantas
• Scandinavian Airlines
• Singapore Airlines
• Turkish Airlines
• United Airlines
• Virgin Atlantic
• Vueling

If your luggage is lost (with an AirTag in it), in the Find My app, you can share the item's location with the airline's baggage claim dept.

 

[MightyDacz]

Someone from Qantas baggage services discouraged me from using Q bag tags for tight connecting flights, because they "require a manual scanner so are sorted last if the team are in a rush".

This was after the only time my bag has been lost domestically, and it wasn't a particularly tight connection at MEL.

Appreciate the transparency from baggage services, but it does raise questions about whether Q Bag Tags are fit for purpose on tight connections. Automation should reduce risk, not increase it.

 

[bpc]

Appreciate the transparency from baggage services, but it does raise questions about whether Q Bag Tags are fit for purpose on tight connections. Automation should reduce risk, not increase it.

Well they don't make or sell them anymore, I'd consider them a legacy product.

 

[exceladdict]

Appreciate the transparency from baggage services, but it does raise questions about whether Q Bag Tags are fit for purpose on tight connections. Automation should reduce risk, not increase it.

You'd think so, but I just don't know enough about the system to know if it's automated or if bags are manually scanned and sorted.