Luggage Trackers: 4 Ways to Prevent Losing Your Luggage
Picture this, you’re waiting for your luggage to come off the plane - and then it happens, that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. The conveyor belt stops, a few of you are still standing around, and it hits you - the airline has lost track of your luggage. Don’t be left out of the know - use a luggage tracking device and prevent losing track of your bags with these four tips.
Prevent Losing Luggage: 4 Amazing Tips
1. Use a luggage tracker from Tile
When you’ve got a Tile luggage tracker, you don’t have to worry about whether or not your luggage made it to your destination. No need to stress anymore. When you put your Tile in your suitcase, you’ll be able to check the location where it was last logged. Whether it got left behind at your departure airport or during a layover, you’ll know where your luggage was from the last time you were connected to it. Get yourself a Tile Mate ahead of your travels today.
2. Tag your bag with your current destination
If you are a frequent traveler and often have multiple tags from old trips on your checked bags, you may make it more difficult for the airport to:
Find where to send your bag if it was left behind on a connecting flight
Figure out which connecting flight to send the bag to during the layover
Making it as easy as possible for the airport to know who this bag belongs to and where it is supposed to be can help prevent dealing with lost luggage during your travels.
3. Use Tile’s Lost and Found Labels to share your contact information
Many people value their privacy and prefer to not have their phone number and contact information written on the tag of their luggage for all to see. If your luggage managed to get lost and you don’t have a Tile Bluetooth tracker, or its last known location is inaccurate, Lost and Found Labels provide an easy way for the airport to contact you - all without having your personal information out in the open.
4. Check-in Early
When you get to the airport early and check in your luggage, your bags are likely to be among the first to get onto the plane. If you arrive at the airport just ahead of boarding, your bags may not have time to make it to the loading bay before it’s too late.
Checking in early does not help with layovers, unfortunately, which is why it is always important to keep your luggage tagged and tracked with Tile Bluetooth luggage trackers.
How to Use a Tile Luggage Tracker
Once a Tile tracking device is paired with your smartphone via the Life360 App for IOS or Android, you can simply put it in or on your suitcase. That’s it - and now you’re ready to track your luggage’s last logged location! The Tile Pro 4-Pack can help cover all your travel related needs.
In addition to knowing your luggage’s last logged location, Tile also helps you find your bag easily in a pile of luggage. All you have to do here is stand near the pile of luggage, hit the button on your phone, and wait to hear that familiar ringtone. But if you hear nothing the first try, be sure to check the app for your luggage’s last known location. With an almost 400ft range, your Tile will help you keep track of your luggage when traveling.
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How Well Do Tile Luggage Trackers Work?
Tile luggage trackers can help you find the last location of your lost bags. How? Your Tile pairs with your smartphone’s Bluetooth to keep you connected and easily track your luggage. As long as you’re within a 400ft range (will vary based on tracker model), a quick search for your luggage on your smartphone will prompt your Tile to start ringing allowing you to track your lost bag fast.
While Tile is not a GPS tracking device, you will know whether or not your luggage made it with you onto your flight and/or your destination. If you’re sitting on the runway ready to take off and you want to know if your luggage made it, simply open the app to see if your bag made it with you.
However, if your luggage was moved at some point after you have been separated from it, you may be unable to know its exact location with Tile. This is why we also recommend using Tile’s Lost and Found Labels to make contacting you easy.
How to Find Lost Luggage Out of Tile Tracker Range
With a massive connected Tile Community - millions strong, across the globe, once you mark your item as lost in the Life360 app, if there is a Tile anywhere in the vicinity of your lost item, you’ll receive an automatic notification - instantly showing you the location of your Tile.
Additionally, if anyone finds your lost luggage, they can simply “flip & scan”, as Tiles come with a QR Code on the back. After you’ve filled out your information for the QR option, your luggage tracker will immediately notify you that your item has been found. In addition to this, you can also be sure to tag your bag with our Lost and Found Labels that offer the same capabilities.
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