Travelers using AirTags to catch airlines lying…
Have airlines joined the Mile Lie Club?
A Delta passenger claimed she caught the airline in a lie thanks to an Apple AirTag, which confirmed that her bag was not where they said it was. While initially posted in January, her X post has resurfaced on Reddit, where it’s at present going viral.
“Airlines must *hate* air tags,” declared Ami Bruni in the X story, which boasts practically 8 million views. “My bags were lost yesterday, and this is my third call with the airline where they try to blatantly lie about where my bag is — and I can just be like, ‘nope, that’s not true at all.’”
“I am 100% convinced that if I were not tracking my bags, there would not be nearly the effort to locate them and get them delivered,” she added in a follow-up post.
People are using Apple AirTags to bust baggage blunders. Christopher Sadowski
In another post, Bruni claimed the issue lies in the baggage supply system, where airlines farm out misplaced baggage drop off to third-party couriers so they will, in her phrases, wash their fingers of it.
Her post prompted a flurry of tales from Redditors who also used AirTags to monitor down suitcases that had been misplaced.
One appalled flyer claimed that their $9,000 racing bike traveled 5,000 miles in the “opposite direction” from their vacation spot, passing through 4 different airports before arriving in another nation.
Phone displaying the gadgets being tracked by a person’s AirTag. ifeelstock – stock.adobe.com
Thankfully, they had been in a position to monitor their bag’s every motion, and after demanding they “escalate,” the poster led them to its location “behind some boxes in a room that has no business storing passenger luggage.”
“It was immediately couriered overnight directly to my hotel in Madrid, the next morning,” the Redditor recalled.
“Will never fly without one,” said another while boasting about their accountability machine. “The airline ‘lost’ my luggage after we landed. They wanted me to file a claim on a line that was about 10 people deep.”
They added, “The tag told me it was on another belt across from where it was supposed to come out from.”
“Airlines must *hate* air tags,” declared Ami Bruni in the X story, which boasts practically 8 million views. “My bags were lost yesterday and this is my third call with the airline where they try to blatantly lie about where my bag is — and I can just be like, ‘nope, that’s not true at all.’” Thomas Heitz – stock.adobe.com
A 3rd relayed a related expertise where their toiletry package confirmed up in a number of areas, and was only recovered after they offered the staff with the monitoring information from inside their baggage.
However, one alleged baggage handler said that most baggage mixups are due to human error and not because the airline is attempting to deceive people.
“I swear some people think there’s a secret underground cabal of airline workers out to inconvenience them,” they wrote. “We’re working off someone scanning the little barcode from your bag at different locations.”
They added, “The idea that I would ‘blatantly lie’ to someone about something they can literally look up on their app, and then ‘hate’ that they made my job easier by placing a tag in their luggage is so obnoxious.”
Meanwhile, others identified that airlines welcome AirTags as they make their job simpler and that Delta permits passengers to combine the tech into their baggage monitoring system for this objective.
Previously, they only permitted flyers to quickly share the placement of their Apple tracker with their reps while attempting to retrieve misplaced baggage.
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