Stan,
I don't know about Delta, I haven't flown on Delta for ages.
That's why I didn't write "all" airlines.
My most recent personal experience was with Turkish Airlines and Czech
Airlines last summer (on international flights), and with Frontier
(domestic) last month.
All of them claimed they do not do real time tracking (if any tracking at
all).
While discussing the situation with the first two, I've read confirmation
that [at least some] other major airlines do not track packages in real
time (if at all).
As for Delta and its app, - I actually wonder what is done "under the
hood". Do they actually *track* your luggage (i.e. do they show you
the actual scan place and time?) or they just follow your itinerary,
making an *ASSUMPTION* that the luggage follows alone?
Well, I see the answers to my questions here:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/26/13415458/delta-bag-tracking-app
It's a very recent feature, just a few months old.
I don't know how many US airports Delta and Delta Connections fly to
(out of almost 400 commercial airports), but 84 is probably not all of
them. But I am glad to see that a major carrier started such an effort.
Hopefully, the others will follow suit.
Thanks for alerting me about its existence.
Igor
Stanley Halpin Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:29:04 -0700 wrote:
On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote:
...
In today's electronic world, when you can see (close to) real-time tracking
of FedEx and UPS packages, - you'd be surprised that the airlines (at least
many of them) do not track the movement of luggage in real time.
I.e. they cannot see where the last scan was.
My understanding is that the only reason for the bar codes on the luggage
tags today is just for sorting. (Or, maybe they have some capability to
research those scans offline.) It looks like, unlike Fedex and UPS, they have
no financial incentives to introduce tracking.
(Cf. USPS has finally implemented real-time tracking of packages to compete
with Fedex and UPS, despite being reluctant if not defiant for many-many
years.)
Igor
On Delta, you can track your luggage on your iPhone if you have their app
installed. Pretty much real time. Nice to see: “your bag is now being
delivered on Carousel 2”…
So yes, the technology definitely does support this feature. But then
technology supports allowing passengers to go online and reserve specific
seats, and [rant] yet some airlines don’t seem to be able to implement
that feature. (Which is why I refuse to fly Southwest. [/rant])]
stan
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