Checked bag vigilantism is again on the desk for passengers of Germany’s largest airline. Contrary to complicated experiences earlier this week, Lufthansa is not banning activated Apple AirTags from clients’ baggage. The firm says it got here to its remaining willpower following an evaluation from the Germany Aviation Authority.

“The German Aviation Authorities (Luftfahrtbundesamt) confirmed today, that they share our risk assessment,” wrote airline spokesperson Christina Semmel to Gizmodo in an electronic mail on Wednesday. “Tracking devices with very low battery and transmission power in checked luggage do not pose a safety risk. With that, these devices are allowed on Lufthansa flights.”

The assertion is a notable reversal from a number of days in the past, when the corporate’s official Twitter account made at least two posts suggesting that activated AirTags and comparable trackers are harmful when stowed in checked baggage.

In response to these tweets, rumors grew that airways, together with Lufthansa, had been set to enact a sweeping ban on monitoring gadgets, largely to save lots of face amid a chaotic summer of lost and delayed baggage. And initially, the corporate’s response supplied little readability, deferring accountability elsewhere. Semmel, the airline spokesperson instructed Gizmodo:

The Lufthansa Group has carried out its personal danger evaluation with the outcome that monitoring gadgets with very low battery and transmission energy in checked baggage don’t pose a security danger. We have by no means issued a ban on gadgets like that. It is on the authorities to adapt rules that proper now restrict the usage of these gadgets for airline passengers in checked baggage. We are in shut contact with the respective establishments to discover a resolution as shortly as potential.

Yet aviation regulators and Apple weighed in to make clear the matter. In a press release shared with a number of news outlets, Apple stated its AirTags are “compliant with international airline travel safety regulations for carry-on and checked baggage.”

The European Union Aviation Safety company additional told The New York Times that its regulation didn’t “in itself ban or allow,” monitoring gadgets, however that airways had the choice to find out what they might allow. And the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that AirTags are allowed on flights with U.S. carriers, as they align with policies on low-powered wi-fi communication gadgets. In different phrases: If wi-fi headphones are superb, why wouldn’t Bluetooth trackers be?

Unlike gadgets with a lot bigger, lithium-ion batteries which the FAA does think about potentially dangerous, the consensus appears to be that AirTags are secure for stowage. So go forward, tag your bag and observe its progress from departure to vacation spot. But bear in mind that although an AirTag isn’t going to carry your aircraft down, the expertise does include different risks.