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Tag your airline (etc.) luggage with a luggage tag that has more than just your name on it, such as an embedded GPS chip. Upon losing your luggage, you can log into a website from any computer connected to the internet, and by paying a nominal fee ($5 USD) locate your bag anywhere in the world. Next time the airlines tell you that they don't know where your bag is, you can tell them it's in Honolulu.
phantom inventor, Jan 24 2008
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active RFID tags might not be quite as effective but in the short run would be a lot less expensive.
RFID (or just as well bar code) tags would need an extensive back system to work as a location system. They may be doing that already, for their own
The back system would likely not work in transit (as in the air), but it could be noted what plane it goes in, and when that flight leaves and arrives at its destination.
GPS would not work well indoors or in the hold of an aircraft, not to mention the "works" that would have tocommunicate the location back to the location. It would be a somewhat powerful radio transmitter, or a GPRS transceiver, either which would need a significant battery for more than a few hours operatioon, and create potential RF emissions issues.