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I won't be flying Lufthansa anytime soon.

I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.

You swallowed the yellow irrational outrage pill. Lufthansa had a customer service rep who (correctly) stated that things with transmitters must have a airplane mode (also true) - without knowing enough about airtags.

Now you are assigning an emotional context ("entrust my life", "incompetent") to a simple question of if Airtags apply?

>a customer service rep who (correctly) stated that things with transmitters must have a airplane mode

That doesn't appear to be what they said:

https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/1578879849577385984

Your logic is flawed.

If they really did it like mentioned than they did everything right: banning it then analysing it and then greenlighting it

If the analysis would have shown an issue you would have been protected BY Lufthansa and standing up vs just not caring.

… because they banned AirTags? That seems a bit of an overreaction.

Especially because it sounds like they didn't actually ban AirTags

> Hi David, Lufthansa is banning activated AirTags from luggage as they are classified as dangerous and need to be turned off./Mony

- https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/1578879849577385984

Certainly you can understand why people thought they did though, right?

I certainly can! Sounds like there was confusion even within Lufthansa about their own policy, or rather how AirTags fit into a broader less specific policy

Yeah, you're right - managing PR and a social media presence is a direct correlation to operating airplanes with a relatively stellar safety record:

> (Lufthansa has)"one fatal air crash, one non-fatal crash, and two hull losses noted since 1989" (1)

(1) JACDEC, https://www.jacdec.de/Order/2021_JACDEC_AIRLINE_RISK_RANKING...

How is Germanwings Flight 9525 (Lufthansa Group) counted under this system?

Good question - at first blush it doesn't appear that it is. I wonder if that's because it was declared a deliberate act by the pilot and was not due to plane/pilot error/safety. I did a surface level dive on the source's methodology and didn't see it called out explicitly.

Point taken, though - you could say that the PiC of that flight might not have been had they better process/procedures.

> I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.

even supposing the stories were true and accurate, if this is enough to get you to never use an airline, which ones are left for you to use?

Lol imagine distrusting an airline, pilots, ICAO, ATC, ground crew, Airbus/Boeing because they placed a ban on airtags.

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