Airports turn to AI and other tech tools to hunt for lost bags

With recent airline havoc triggering pile-ups at baggage claims across the country, airports and airlines are increasingly using technology to find lost items.

With recent airline fiascos triggering pileups of luggage at baggage carousels across the country, airports and airlines are increasingly using technology to help track down travelers’ missing possessions.

The lost-and-found department at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport (SAV) in Georgia says it has logged in everything from a set of dentures to three uncooked eggs and a green, 6-foot stuffed alligator.

At Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), a set of tire chains and a taxidermy rat landed in lost-and-found.

So did Claire Gulmi’s favorite winter jacket.

As she was boarding her flight home to Nashville after a recent vacation in Park City, Utah, the retired health care executive was “pretty horrified” to realize she’d left her coat in a bin at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint. “I thought I’d never see it again,” she said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/travel/airports-turn-ai-tech-tools-hunt-lost-bags-rcna65335

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