Biretta tip to Patrick Madrid, who also flies a lot. Delta (with which I am … never mind…) has a new app for the iPhone that tracks your checked luggage. I have used it, as a matter of fact, recently. I had a flight delay that caused me to miss a connection. The app tracked my bag, as advertised!
To advertise their app Delta has a video of where your bag goes, from the time it disappears behind the rubber flaps until you pick it up. They made a case with 6 cameras and sent it from Atlanta to La Guardia in NYC.
UPDATE:
Remember this one?
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Why would I want to be reminded that my luggage is having a better trip than me? ;-)
I always imagined something more Rube Goldberg-like. A few more levers activated by falling anvils, large magnets mounted on skateboards, and more gigantic springs. And a super-genius coyote on rocket skates.
With Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” as a soundtrack, interspersed with Strauss’s “Blue Danube.”
[I wonder if the TSA part they blacked out was the “gorilla with your bag in a cage” part. Remember that?]
I have a hard enough time watching my luggage get thrown, tossed, squished, dropped, driven over by the luggage buggy, etc that I would rather not get anymore information regarding the whereabouts of my luggage. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
Oh my, and I sent my Puddy and Vladimir in kennels up to Alberta, then to Alaska with us, down again, to Wisconsin back in the Midwest…poor things. Did not bring them to Europe. I would be traumatized. Miho would have died. Now my cats are in Iowa and Missouri, and not moving.
Just like in Toy Story 3!
I remember the American Tourister gorilla commercial, and it was the first thing I thought of when the Delta video faded to black after 54 seconds. Here is a similar 1980 American Tourister gorilla commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749iU2Zv1kw&feature=related
Woohoo! Gold star! Thanks, Fr. Z!