Airline industry insiders say passengers have become carried away with carry-on baggage, leading to costly delays. That’s prompting calls for changes to how airplanes charge for baggage, with some discount airlines like Sunwing and Spirit already beginning to flip the fee structure so passengers pay for the privilege of keeping their bags on board.
It was mentioned in the article that some airlines have invested in baggage tracking as well. I know I would be a lot more comfortable checking a bag if I weren’t risking not having my bag at the destination.
Airtags are honestly the best invention for this.
They’re a bit wonky/laggy during your trip, but when your luggage is lost it’s nice to be able to tell baggage claim “the bag looks like X, and it’s in terminal 3 of Pearson right now”
Better than that, once you get to your destination, you can find it when you get within 30m… I found out that our bags were sent to a different carousel, and then taken off the belt and into the area behind us on one trip this spring.
Airlines can’t be trusted to get their shit together, and having an AirTag / Tile is even better…
I don’t need an airtag to tell them what my bag looks like, and that it’s at terminal 3 of Pearson. Where else would it be when I flew direct Montréal to Halifax?
When you’re flying from LAX to Pearson, Pearson to Montreal, and then before you board your flight at Pearson your gate gets changed, your bag could be anywhere.
Your bag is in Pearson. If your flight goes over Canadian airspace, your bag goes to Pearson.
Vancouver to Mumbai? Pearson.
New York to Seoul? Pearson.
Moscow to Cuba? Pearson.
Helicopter skiing out of Whistler? Pearson.
Driving Québéc City to Charlottetown, but you hit a hill in New Brunswick too fast and catch some air? Pearson.
Greyhound bus from Calgary to Edmonton hits a pothole? Pearson.
The only convincing argument I’ve ever heard for Toronto being the center of the universe, is the supermassive luggage hole that is Pearson airport.
As for a non-hyperbolic example, I went Atlanta-Montreal-Ottawa a few years. At the customs in Montreal, it was a disaster zone; bags piled in random corridors; and it was abundantly clear there was no chance my bag would make it. What wasn’t clear is how my bag ended up in Pearson, then on to Ottawa, then back in Pearson again, then finally in Ottawa.
If I could track my bag from check in to pick up through the airlines own app, they would have my business. Also if I didn’t have to wait up to an hour to get it.
For now I’ll stick to travelling light with carry on.
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That’s great and all until you track your luggage heading to Seattle while you’ve just arrived in Portland. Ask me how I know that one.