Lost luggage? You can now share your Apple AirTag with BA, Virgin, Iberia, Aer Lingus & more
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Apple’s AirTag is practically made for frequent travellers. The small £2-sized tracking device is ideal for making sure your bags come with you, and knowing where they are when they haven’t.
I’ve had one for the past two years, religiously taking it everywhere I go. I keep it in my wash bag so that it’s always with me whenever I travel.
It’s saved me on multiple occasions and also gives me peace of mind. I no longer stand at the baggage belt wondering if my bag has made it if it takes a while to emerge: I know by glancing at the Find My app that it has.
On connecting flights, I can check to see if it’s been loaded on the aircraft. On one occasion it helped me find it when I spent the night in Singapore Airport and only passed through the baggage hall the following morning. With my AirTag, I could make a beeline for my bag without having to hunt through hundreds of stored suitcases.
If you don’t already have an AirTag, I highly recommend you get one (HfP Amazon link here!) as it’s about to get a whole lot more useful.
With iOS 18.2, the latest update, Apple now allows you to share an AirTag’s location:
“Apple has introduced Share Item Location, a new iOS feature that helps users locate and recover misplaced items by easily and securely sharing the location of an AirTag or Find My network accessory with third parties such as airlines.
The shared location will be disabled as soon as a user is reunited with their item, can be stopped by the owner at any time, and will automatically expire after seven days.”
A number of airlines now allow you to share the tracking link with them when submitting a delayed or lost luggage report. This can potentially help them track down your baggage and return it to you faster.
The ‘Share Item Location’ feature is supported by a number of airlines, including all major IAG carriers and Virgin Atlantic. Here is the full list:
- Aer Lingus
- Air Canada
- Air New Zealand
- Austrian Airlines
- British Airways
- Brussels Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Eurowings
- Iberia
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Qantas
- Singapore Airlines
- SWISS
- Turkish Airlines
- United
- Virgin Atlantic
- Vueling
If you don’t already have one, you can get them on Amazon for £28 here (Apple sells them for £35, albeit with free engraving). Multipacks are also available.
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