Summary Lufthansa lost my bags due to airport chaos earlier in the day. The AirTag helped me realize the bag was at the airport but delivered to the wrong terminal. In this instance, the AirTag was crucial for finding my lost baggage.
Back in late 2022, Lufthansa briefly banned Apple’s AirTags from checked baggage . Thankfully, the ban was short-lived. Recently, amidst post-protest chaos at Frankfurt Airport, the German flag carrier Lufthansa lost my bag after a late arrival from London Heathrow.
Here’s how I got it back. Last month, I flew from London Heathrow Airport to Frankfurt Airport after the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow. Thanks to protesters gluing themselves airside in the morning , operations were in disarray.
Our flight arrived one hour and 17 minutes late at 23:22. Importantly, I knew that my bag had also made it to Frankfurt thanks to checking the “Find My” app from Apple. What happened next was a surprise.
London bags started to be offloaded onto the belt, and I thought it was strange that the “priority’ tagged bags were not first on the belt. My bag went to the wrong terminal When I looked at the FindMy app, I saw that my bag had somehow gone to Terminal 2 instead of Terminal 1, where I had arrived. It seemed as though I was not the only one, as all the bags within that particular container had somehow gone to the wrong terminal.
We continued to wait in the hope that the bags would show up on the belt, but eventually, around 90 minutes aft.