Two more airlines announce major change to help retrieve lost luggage

Lost luggage could soon go a happening of the past arsenic airlines are embracing Apple AirTags to assistance passengers reunite with their missing baggage.

This week, major carriers Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic announced they are present allowing passengers to stock the determination of their AirTags, oregon different Find My Network accessories, with lawsuit work teams to way down misplaced bags.

Lufthansa confirmed that customers tin present ‘privately and securely’ stock AirTag locations done the ‘familiar integer channels’ of its bagging tracing service.

‘The group’s airlines integrate this accusation into their systems accordingly and tin truthful digitally enactment baggage tracking,’ the German steadfast explained.  

Other carriers successful the Lufthansa family, including SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings, volition besides incorporated Apple AirTag determination tracking into their systems.

It marks a U-turn for the company, which banned the usage of AirTags successful 2022 (albeit for conscionable 3 days) implicit information concerns.

Meanwhile, Corneel Koster, main lawsuit and operating serviceman astatine Virgin Atlantic, said its inaugural volition supply customers with ‘peace of mind’ erstwhile it comes to baggage retrieval.

And this follows a November announcement from Apple that it would beryllium moving with implicit 15 airlines worldwide – including Aer Lingus, British Airways, and Qantas – to see Find My Item determination information into lawsuit work processes, with much airlines expected to articulation going forward. 

United Airlines besides integrated the strategy backmost successful December, enabling customers to stock the nexus to the item’s determination done the United app oregon via substance message.

‘Apple’s caller Share Item Location diagnostic volition assistance customers question with adjacent much confidence, knowing they person different mode to entree their bag’s precise determination with AirTag oregon their Find My accessory of choice,’ David Kinzelman, United’s main lawsuit officer, said astatine the time.

How to stock your luggage location 

To stock the determination of your AirTag oregon Find My Network accessory with your airline, you tin make a Share Item Location nexus done the Find My app. You volition nevertheless request iOS 18.2 and a £35 aerial tag to bash so.

When making a missing luggage report, customers tin past stock this nexus with the airdrome and baggage tracing teams, who tin presumption the unrecorded determination of the container and assistance successful its retrieval.

According to Apple, entree to each nexus volition beryllium constricted to a tiny fig of people. Recipients volition request to authenticate to presumption the nexus too, either done their Apple relationship oregon a spouse email address.

Full database of airlines implementing AirTags

The pursuing airlines person partnered with Apple to instrumentality AirTag technology, with the institution hopeful that much volition articulation successful future:

1. Qantas
2. Aer Lingus
3. Air Canada
4. Air New Zealand
5. Austrian Airlines
6. British Airways
7. Brussels Airlines
8. Delta Air Lines
9. Eurowings
10. Iberia
11. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
12. Lufthansa
13. Singapore Airlines
14. Swiss International Air Lines
15. Turkish Airlines
16. United
17. Virgin Atlantic 
18. Vueling

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