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RSS airports airlineContinental Airlines Improves Airport Gate Experience With Presentation Technology
White Paper Continental Airlines carries 65 million passengers a year to 265 airports around the world, and it strives to ensure that every one of those customers has the best possible travel experience. In order to improve access... [30 Jul 2009]
easyJet sees the cloud's Azure lining
News ASP will be launched commercially in the fourth quarter of this year and includes the Windows Azure computing and storage service, the SQL Azure database platform and .NET Services.easyJet is currently looking at using Azure to run its... [15 Jul 2009]
Photos: The tech keeping the world's airports flying high
Photo Handheld tech is helping to save time and money for airports amid some of the toughest economic conditions that the airline industry has faced. This demonstration model of a ramp management app, which... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which had campaigned against the compulsory cards on the grounds that security checks at airports are already stringent, welcomed the move. As a result, a... [01 Jul 2009]
Pilots to bail out on ID cards
News All new airside workers in the UK will be required to have an ID card, starting with staff and crew at Manchester and London City airports this Autumn. A survey of 10,000 pilots by the British Airline... [08 May 2009]
digEcor Designs Optimal In-Flight Entertainment Device With D-Link 802.11 a/b/g Wireless Adapter
White Paper When digEcor was designing their award-winning digEplayer XT In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) player, they needed to include wireless capability to meet its airline customer requirements.digEcor needed the wireless adapters... [03 Apr 2009]
Identity crisis for £1.2bn e-Borders system?
News The rollout of e-Borders will start next month, with the system used to cross reference the names and other details of passengers travelling to British airports, rail and ferry terminals. Project Semaphore, a prototype... [30 Mar 2009]
Airlines fear delays from snooping tech
News Home Office plans to begin using the £1.2bn e-Borders system at airports, rail and ferry terminals from April risks delaying UK travellers, according to the British Air Transport Association (Bata), the trade body for UK... [11 Feb 2009]
ID cards project adds implementation chief
News Cards will be compulsory for "airside workers" from autumn next year, with staff at London City and Manchester airports being the first UK citizens to receive the card. Gaskell will also head up the distribution of cards... [18 Nov 2008]
No pink slips in Bangalore - yet
Comment Very soon the laid-off staffers were parading themselves in bright yellow-and-blue uniforms at airports, shouting down the company. What might have persuaded the airline to do the quick about-turn was... [28 Oct 2008]
'ID card guinea pig' pilots ready to call in lawyers
News As part of a phased introduction of ID cards, the government has stipulated that people working in certain 'sensitive areas' such as airports will be required to hold an identity card from mid-2009. The Balpa spokesman... [13 Oct 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News Phones are currently used by 90 per cent of airline passengers, which opens up possibilities for revenue-generating opportunities - such as mobile vouchers that can be redeemed in airports, according to... [20 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment If there is any improvement in detection rates at airports, it seems to be marginal to date. To be honest my pen is much more of a weapon than anything else in my baggage, not to mention the metal knife and fork I just... [29 Apr 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 several UK... [21 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Stephen Challis, head of product development at BAA Heathrow, said: "In effect the bag is travelling with its own passport… improving the certainty around the operation and reducing the manual intervention that's required, which we... [13 Feb 2008]
