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Old 26th Apr 2023, 12:02
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Dave Gittins
 
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Asking for a definitive response from any airline is likely to result in obfuscation and a probable refusal in order to "be on the safe side", as it originally did with Lufthansa.

The two issues were :

1. the possibility of lithium in the batteries, which has been rejected, and

2. the issue of "must be switched off during flight" which is a confusion between erroneously crediting AirTags with emitting and connecting to 4G/5G vs. the reality that it's a Bluetooth device which only works when it can broadcast via an adjacent Apple device it manages to latch on to (hence the reason why when in motion and not close to me it is so slow to update it's position).

Bluetooth devices are not banned on aircraft in any phase of flight, as any Bluetooth headphone / earbud user will know.
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