Since their release in the spring of 2021, Apple's geolocation beacons have repeatedly demonstrated their usefulness in finding lost luggage during a flight.

However, Lufthansa recently decided to ban these AirTags, reports BFM Tech.

The airline assured to have relied on the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which would consider that these small objects would be dangerous in full flight.

Like all geolocation devices, AirTags emit frequencies that could disrupt the operation of aircraft.

“We are only following the recommendations of the ICAO”, confided a spokesperson for the German company to our colleagues.

Lufthansa, however, did not indicate which text it was explicitly referring to.


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

— Lufthansa (@lufthansa) October 8, 2022

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Inadmissible arguments?

After consulting several experts in the air sector, the

AppleInsider

media claims, however, that the arguments put forward by the company are not correct.

Lufthansa would actually rely on an erroneous interpretation of the regulations.

The ICAO recommendations would only apply to large devices using lithium-ion batteries, while AirTags use a button cell.



According to our colleagues at

AppleInsider

, a ban on AirTags should therefore lead to a ban on smartwatches that use the same type of batteries.

However, no regulation has ever been envisaged concerning the latter.

According to the experts consulted by the media specialist of Apple, Lufthansa would have simply introduced this ban to avoid being put in the embarrassment after the loss of luggage.

Because the Internet users concerned do not hesitate to share their bad experience on social networks.

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