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In reality, a ban by Lufthansa or any airline is simply trying to evade accountability rather than promote safety. Lufthansa Has Not Banned Apple AirTags It was widely reported yesterday that Lufthansa banned Apple AirTags in hold baggage, the miniature devices that you can drop inside a bag and then use your phone to follow the location of your bag. That proved quite handy in a recent lost baggage case and I am now the proud owner of four of these coin-size devices. German media and even some of my colleagues reported that Lufthansa determined that AirTags and other tracking devices represent "dangerous goods" according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and therefore cannot be placed in a checked bag while transmit mode is enabled. But when the very point of these devices is to transmit location information, it renders them useless. Last night, however, a Lufthansa spokesperson confirmed to Ethan Kapper of The Points Guy that AirTags are still permitted onboard and there has been no change in policy. A Lufthansa spokesperson tells me there is no change to the carrier's policy on AirTags. -- Ethan Klapper (@ethanklapper) October 7, 2022 While I would not wholly foreclose the possibility of Lufthansa banning such items, I find it highly unlikely. How would Lufthansa possibly enforce that? Furthermore, I suspect that the act of banning these would embolden more passengers to flout the rule. CONCLUSION AirTags are NOT banned by Lufthasna. Instead, Lufthansa has confirmed there is no change in policy. At least for now, you can continue to place AirTags or other baggage-tracking devices inside your checked baggage. I suspect Lufthansa will not try to ban these even at a future point, as customers will simply ignore the ban. image: Apple Previous Article What Is A Premium Transcontinental Flight Like On United Airlines In Business Class? Next Article How Skiplagged Lost Its Groove... About Author [b4a495e96d989] Matthew Klint Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel. 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[140d3df] Aaron Reply October 8, 2022 at 9:35 am "I suspect that the act of banning these would embolden more passengers to flout the rule." Which itself is rather ridiculous. "I wasn't planning on using it, but if LH is going to ban them, well then I wanna stick it to LH!" + [b4a495e] Matthew Klint Reply October 8, 2022 at 10:04 am Not so much in that sense, but in that this whole "ban" (if it ever occurs, and I doubt it will) will raise far more awareness on the wisdom of dropping one of these AirTags in your checked baggage. 3. [e80ff1a] Santastico Reply October 8, 2022 at 10:48 am I use AirTags in all my bags and they provide a huge peace of mind as you know exactly where your bags are once you are on a plane. I don't trust the airlines to tell me where my bags are. BTW, AirTags use same battery as most watches so the reports about batteries being dangerous was total BS. 4. [d593e8b] DCAWABN Reply October 8, 2022 at 11:40 am LH need not recruit a team of X'ray technicians to scan every bag or rifle through it. That's a ridiculous sentiment. What they - and other feckless airlines - WILL do is make it part of the Contract of Carriage such that it's a Catch 22 for passengers that alleviates LH of any responsibility for lost bags. Example scenario: 1. LH add's that no "location transmitting devices" are allowed in checked (or any?) luggage per the CoC. They do not need a technical reason why they disallow them, they can simply cite any number of ambiguous "operational" reasons. 2. Pax A's bag is not delivered by LH on a JFK-FRA flight operated by LH and under an LH flight number. 3. Upon arriving in FRA, Pax A sees via FindMy app on their iPhone that their bag is still at JFK (or elsewhere). 4. Pax A alerts LH baggage services that their bag is lost and is still at JFK. 5. LH denies this and states is *must* be in FRA as their system says so. Thus they will deliver it in due time. 6. Pax A refutes this by showing them the actual location in the bowels of JFK and demands LH compensate them. 7. LH states that because Pax A has violated the CoC, LH is under no obligation to do anything, regardless of where the luggage actually exists. Will this invite potential lawsuits? Maybe, but LH won't care because it immediately alleviates them from the administrative and admittedly minuscule financial burden of dealing with lost bags. They can now do so with impunity until such a time that travelers realize they have no recourse and stop expecting LH to get their bags anywhere on time let alone WITH them. 5. [abf7b5f] Brian T. Reply October 8, 2022 at 5:29 pm Thanks for reporting on this clarification, Matthew. I literally just read about the "ban" on another site. 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