My AirTag knew what United didn’t: where in the world to find my bags

Dear Reader, It’s been an interesting week. On July 19, 2024, a CrowdStrike outage took down a lot of infrastructure, including core systems for airlines; some were worse off than others. Delta, notably, did not recover as quickly as American Airlines or United, because they cancelled 1,000 flights on the 22nd alone.

But on Monday, July 22, 2024, most things were back up and running and I was being prepped for a United flight to Columbus, OH, to attend the MLS All-Star Game. I never made it, but my luggage did.