Nakita Rees and Tom Wilson of Cambridge, Ontario, say they fought with Air Canada for some four months to get back a piece of luggage — during which the couple was told it was lost and then donated to charity, all the while being track by them via an Apple AirTag — before it was finally returned to them on Monday.
Rees and Wilson were on their honeymoon and returned to Canada from Greece on Sept. 10. Their flight landed in Montreal and they had to recheck their bags before continuing to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
When the couple landed in Toronto, the Apple AirTag tracker in Wilson’s luggage showed it was still in Montreal.
After filling out the paperwork for misplaced luggage, the couple went home, certain the bag would be returned within a day or two, Rees said.
She said the AirTag, which allowed them to track the bag using an app on their iPhone, gave them “complete peace of mind…”
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Here is my travel suggestion:
Put one airtag inside luggage. Tape your destination as well as home address to the inside. Put at least two address labels on the outside.
Nothing like telling everybody where you live and you’re not home!
That has to be the dumbest statement.. if anything that’s what you don’t want to do. The airlines or would be thieves could care less about the actual suitcase.. they want what’s inside. Besides putting a airtag in the zipper of the luggage. Put a airtag in a pair of jeans or whatever is super valuable in your checked bag and if that starts moving then you have a real issue.