{"id":27463,"date":"2023-01-04T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/lost-bag-with-airtag-saga-is-over-but-united-still-hasnt-explained-itself\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:58:10","slug":"lost-bag-with-airtag-saga-is-over-but-united-still-hasnt-explained-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/lost-bag-with-airtag-saga-is-over-but-united-still-hasnt-explained-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost bag with AirTag saga is over \u2014 but United still hasn’t explained itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman who tracked her lost luggage with AirTag<\/a> has been reunited with her belongings, but only after she gained significant media attention. <\/p>\n

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Valerie Szybala recently took to Twitter to document<\/a> how United Airlines lost her luggage, then proceeded to insist she was wrong about where the tracking device said it was. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, the story seems to end happily, with Szybala reporting that her luggage had been returned to her as of Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WHEW this has been a wild ride y’all. I’m happy to report that I got my bag back!!! I’ll give more details & lessons learned later. For now wanna say thank you for all of the support, and shout out to the building resident and local news crews who came out to help =) pic.twitter.com\/hCDXMreiDC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 valerie szybala. (@vszyb) January 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Previously, Szybala’s AirTag showed her bag at a residential apartment, even though United Airlines insisted that the bag was “safe at the Delivery services distribution center.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Later, the bag was tracked to a McDonalds, a shopping center, and then returned to the apartment complex. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Szybala, she returned to the apartment complex accompanied by a local news crew when she received a “sketchy” text from someone claiming to be a courier. The courier told her the bag had been erroneously delivered to a different passenger. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The courier returned her bag, which was still locked and had all its contents. Szybala did not question the courier’s story as she was “too excited to have [her] bag to ask whether he’d had it all weekend.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She ends the Twitter thread by telling travelers to use a tracking device like AirTag and photograph their belongings in the event that they need to file a reimbursement claim. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is not the first time that AirTags have revealed unexpected journeys of the luggage they are placed in. In June 2022, one man tracked down<\/a> his missing baggage to an office in Melbourne Airport. Then in August 2022, a couple visiting Portugal reported that their luggage got to see more<\/a> of the country than they did. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also, in late 2022, Lufthansa briefly banned AirTags on a hopefully mistaken interpretation of FCC regulations regarding batteries. It then reversed the decision<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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