Danny Orleans is a corporate magician. No, he doesn’t make the value of corporations disappear. We leave that sort of thing to executives who don’t know what they are doing and watch as the value of the company they are running drops in half. That might bring to mind a certain wealthy individual and a specific social media platform, but that’s a story for another day.
United Airlines makes a corporate magician’s bag disappear
Orleans’ bag was found on the tarmac by the magician, exactly where the AirTag said that it would be
Luckily, the magician had placed an Apple AirTag item tracker in his bag. He checked his iPhone to see where his bag was located and said, “I checked and I could still see that it was still out on the runway. It was not in the terminal. I waited and it didn’t move. I waited and it didn’t move. I waited about 30 minutes, and then it moved — but it moved to another place on the runway.”
So the magician purchased a refundable ticket to Boston (making some of his money disappear) just to be able to get to Gate 90. He went through security, strode up to Gate 90, looked out the window and there was his bag lying on the tarmac exactly where the Find My app said it would be. “It was just sitting on the tarmac, “Orleans said. “The most frustrating thing is somebody walked past the luggage while I was watching it, and he just walked right past it, like it was not his job to get it.”
Orleans remains a fan of United Airlines and flies with the carrier three to four times a month
The magician was able to find a United employee that could help retrieve his bag. However, he was not allowed to give the bag directly to Orleans. Instead, he set it up to come out on the carousel where Danny was finally re (ahem) united with his bag four hours after his plane landed. And the next day the magician got to perform during the aforementioned trade show. Even more amazing, Orleans remains a fan of United Airlines and flies with them four to six times per month.
He also had kind words to say about Apple’s AirTags noting that they have helped him retrieve his bag three or four times. Interestingly, even though Orleans got his bag on Tuesday, United didn’t know that and told him on Wednesday that they were still looking for it and would let him know when it is found.
