Catch it in case you can.
Éric Béteille, a content designer at Meta who lives in San Diego, California said he lost his AirTag on an Alaska Airlines flight in July and since then he’s watched the tracking device travel to 37 different cities.
Béteille said he realized his AirTag was traveling without him by accident.
“It took me a few weeks to even know it was missing because I never lost my actual luggage. I used to be just checking the Find My app a couple of weeks after my flight and was surprised to see that AirTag still tons of of miles away from me,” he told The Post.
Béteille wrote about his AirTags’ many travels in a Facebook post.
“Last July, an AirTag tracker fell out of my luggage tag within the cargo space on an Alaska Airlines flight from San Francisco to San Diego,” he said in a Facebook post in a gaggle called Dull Men’s Club.
“I’ve been tracking it across the western US and Canada ever since,” he added.
Béteille said he made a map of all of the routes his AirTag takes and located that the tiny jet-setting device makes a mean of 5 trips per day on a plane called the Ebraer E175LR.
“The Find My app didn’t give me the flight history. It only tells me where the AirTag is at any given moment. I found out the aircraft number after which got detailed tracking from the Flightradar24 app,” he told The Post.
Using Flightradar24, he could track all of the places his AirTag has flown including Austin, Texas and Vancouver, Canada.
Béteille said that he’s been to 34 of the 37 cities the AirTag traveled to, although unlike the AirTag he’s ventured outside of North America.
“I’ve been all around the US, parts of Europe and Asia. Keep trying, little AirTag!” he said.
He said he never contacted the airline to get the AirTag back. “Who desires to spoil the fun?” he said.
Commenters on his Facebook post lauded him for tracking the device and asked him several questions.
“Did you message Alaska Airlines on X or Facebook and ask for it back,” one person asked.
“I’d moderately see it proceed on this journey!,” Béteille replied.
“Surly the battery would have run out? How has it lasted so long,” one other pondered.
Based on Apple’s website, the battery can last a couple of 12 months.
“Great idea! Enthusiastic about drop one in every of my AirTag to somewhere. Perhaps on an enormous container ship or on RR cart,” said a 3rd.
