Minnesota’s Delta Airlines Makes Tracking Your Bags Easy

I just got back from a few days down in Nashville and had a great time. But there's nothing worse than having the airline lose your luggage, is there? Which is why one of Minnesota's biggest airlines just unveiled a new way to keep tabs on your bags!

Luckily, I've never had the experience of landing at my destination when going on vacation only to have my luggage end up somewhere else. And while the airlines are working hard to make those instances less and less, they still happen.

Which is why Minnesota's own Delta Airlines has just unveiled this cool new technology that will allow you to see where your bags are. It's all part of Delta's new app, and it uses something called "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) bag tags" that will allow you to track your bags, in real time, from a map on the Delta app.

A release from Delta

says it works like this: "The display starts by showing a zoomed out map of the U.S. as the bag travels from one airport to the next. The map then automatically zooms to airport view and users can follow their bag along its journey via pins, with the last known location identified by a suitcase icon. Tapping any of the pins or the icon will provide additional text information about the location of the bag."

It sounds pretty cool! The release says the technology is being rolled out at 84 of their airports right now, with implementation set for all their outlets in 'the coming months.' I wonder when they'll get the technology at the Minneapolis Airport...