Waiting to be reunited with luggage can be stressful (Image: Getty)
If you’re the sort of person who gets seriously stressed when travelling because you’re anxious to know whether your fashionable have made it to your destination in one piece, you’re certainly not alone.
Whether you had your bag lost in transit, or it didn’t make it to your on your first day of holiday, you’ll know how gut-wrenching it can feel.
You’re left with whatever you took in your hand luggage and forced to go shopping for more things.
But @thepilottwins took to to share how to get rid of those feelings of fear when you’re flying – and although it cannot guarantee your luggage won’t get lost, you’ll be able to find out exactly where it is, so if you do have to ring the airport where it’s ended up, you’ve got proof that it’s there.
If you’re an iPhone user, the experts recommend you “buy an Apple AirTag” and “put this in your check-in luggage”.
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This means you can “follow your luggage during your trip,” so when you land, you could see whether it also made it to the same country as you.
“And you can relax because you know your luggage is onboard,” they also shared, as you can check it just before you put your phone on airplane mode.
He then showed what it looks like on the ‘Find My’ app when you’re tracking your luggage. Much like if you track your pals on the app, you can see exactly where your stuff is, so when the suitcases come out on the belt, you can rest easy knowing it’s on the way.
You can even customise the name of the Air Tag and emoji you use to track it to make it a completely personalised experience.
At the end of the video, they wrote: “Thank us later.”
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On , Air Tags are currently £28, down from £35. You will need to change the battery around once a year, but you can do this yourself easily. It’s worth the money to have a peace of mind when travelling.
In the comments, someone asked: “Will not intervene with the radio frequency of the plane?”
Another replied: “Nope, it doesn’t use a cellular network, just Bluetooth.” Due to this, however, it does mean that sometimes your AirTag can take a little while to show up after you’ve taken your phone off airplane mode.
Some passengers said they’d rather not know, however, penning: “That would be so bad, imagine seeing it on a different plane and then having to worry your whole flight about your luggage not being on board.” The user did say though that “at least you’d know where it was” when you landed, so could take action.
Another backed it though, saying: “I use an Air Tag in every bag that I use… not just the carry-on! It’s just a relief to know where your bag is!”