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Southwest Airlines canceled more than 13000 flights due to system crash, and travelers frantically bought Apple AirTag tracking suitcases.

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 14:04:59 10月27日 Update

CTOnews.com, January 15 (Xinhua) Southwest Airlines (Southwest Airlines Co.) lost more than $800 million (currently about 5.376 billion yuan) due to the collapse of its SkySolver system during the Christmas holiday, resulting in widespread delays or cancellations of flights (about 13000 flights were affected). But unexpectedly, the incident made Apple's AirTag a hot item.

According to Google Trends statistics over the past few weeks, searches for AirTag have surged, and AirTag has two seats on Amazon's best-selling electronics list.

The most obvious use of the AirTag for these consumers is to track the suitcase so that it can be located through the Find My after it is lost.

CTOnews.com small class: AirTag can help you easily track and find all kinds of items. Just hang one on the keychain, tuck another into the backpack, and you can see their location in the search App. Don't worry if you have AirTag. At present, the price of a single package is 249 yuan on the domestic official website, and the price of a four-piece package is 849 yuan.

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