An airport official said Seattle-Tacoma International Airport handles about 23 million bags per year, but acknowledges that if a person’s bag is stolen, the numbers aren’t much comfort.
November 14, 2022 at 6:44 pm PST
Megan Morris and her family became one of this year’s victims in January, when they returned to Seattle after celebrating her husband’s birthday in Hawaii. “Unfortunately, it does,” Beam said. “With the holidays, people go, they bring gifts. Grandparents are bringing gifts for the grandkids and unfortunately the baggage thieves know this. So we’ll see a lot of people coming in just specifically to steal bags. But we also anticipate this and address it accordingly.”
More bags checked in mean more opportunities for thieves, so some travelers are fighting back with tracking devices that can help track down bags that are stolen or lost. The AirTag, priced at $29, immediately indicated a location for both the bag and for the iPhone being used to track it, enabling the user to figure out which direction to go in.
The LandAirSea 54 GPS tracker was priced at $30, but it also requires a tracking plan. The most basic plan, which provides location updates every 3 minutes, is $20 a month, though there are discounts for prepaying several months.
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