▲ ▼ Retrieving baggage lost at airport
Retrieving baggage lost during transit at busy international airports are a huge hassle if not impossible. Since hundreds of baggage pass through the conveyor belts at these airports at any given moment it's easy for a baggage to be misplaced.
Locating such lost baggage could take weeks at busy airports where thousands of baggage are added to the lost&found section every day, If our baggage was lost at a connecting airport we would be in a different city or country by the time we realize that our baggage was lost.
Even the top-rated premium airlines do a bad job at repatriating lost baggage due to the sheer volume that they often prefer to reimburse instead, But some lost items could have emotional value.
Apple AirTag - https://www.apple.com/airtag/ could help locate at-least the airport where our lost baggage if we came through several connected airports, But retrieving that baggage by coordinating with the help desk is again going to be a huge pain.
OK - what is the problem here? There is losing luggage in the first place - not sure why that happens (probably something airlines have lots of data on), then there is tracing and retrieving it after the loss. Which part of the problem does this idea solve?
If the latter, why not just have a franchise desk at every major airport and railway station which can cross-reference these geotags (knowing what is in their local location) vs a list of luggage reported as lost by users (i.e. passed onto the company by the airline, perhaps via a button in their app). With the right access permissions on the ground, the company could go fetch the luggage from lost property / storage and either make it available for collection on demand by the user, or send it on somewhere else for a price. Figure out the pricing and off you go.