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British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News BA CIO Paul Coby predicted "exciting" new developments in in-flight passenger comms on new aircraft but warned it is essential for these communications to be "firewalled and separate from the cockpit". [01 Jul 2009]
Airlines fear delays from snooping tech
News These details include passenger names, date, method of payment and place of ticket issue. Eventually the project is expected to see ferry companies and airlines obliged to automatically check passenger... [11 Feb 2009]
Virgin Atlantic reservation system goes supersonic
News Cope told silicon.com: "It brings more capability to the website and self service systems, allowing the passenger to do more themselves when they want, rather than having to visit a travel agent or phone a contact centre. [09 Dec 2008]
Gov't battles EU to use passenger data
News PNR data includes passenger name, travel agent or airline contact, ticket number, itinerary of at least one segment of the journey, name of person making the booking and can include age,... [08 Aug 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment He adds that they also run a leaky cable along the aircraft ceiling to bring the radio signals even closer to the passenger. OnAir, for example, works with Monaco Telecom which will have the roaming agreements with the... [26 Jun 2008]
Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco
News Photos: Passenger's eye view of Heathrow Terminal 5 That's according to British Airways CEO, Willie Walsh, who has made it clear building work delays caused the airline to compromise its staff... [08 May 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at... [21 Feb 2008]
BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5
Case Study The systems running on the network include passenger check-in, ticketing and departure control information, along with crew scheduling and other back-office systems. Among other things, the network also supports T5's... [08 Feb 2008]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News This data is then uploaded onto a smartcard that can be used by the passenger on any future journeys. The airport authorities and the UK government claim the system will improve security and border... [06 Dec 2006]
Ongoing tug-of-war over airline passenger data
News European and US authorities on Friday reached a new interim agreement on the continued exchange of airline passenger data. The ruling stated that the exchange of... [06 Oct 2006]
Ever had text on an airplane?
News Like the airline's normal voice and data communications, the SMS enquiries will be sent over satellite. Tharp added the airline is keeping "a watching brief" on introducing cellular... [09 Aug 2006]
Airline passenger data deal illegal, court rules
News The European parliament had issued no less than six pleas surrounding the exchange of so-called Passenger Name Records (PNR). Airlines were forced to release data originally deemed private under European... [30 May 2006]
Iris scans and passenger databases to protect UK borders
News Any airline that fails to submit passenger lists, or carries passengers that have been refused by the UK, will face a penalty. The passenger data provided by the... [16 Feb 2006]
US push for more internal anti-terror data sharing
News State and Homeland Security screeners already use information culled from visa applications and airline passenger records to compare against watch lists, the Homeland Security spokesman said, but "as new... [18 Jan 2006]
Airlines cool on RFID tags
News Conceivably the three obvious areas of use are passenger baggage, cargo containers and engineering parts but you need industry-wide standards," he said. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking tags are still a... [24 Mar 2005]
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