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BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News BAA owns and operates seven UK airports, including Heathrow, which handle more than 200 million passengers per year. Airport operator BAA is hoping the roll out of Windows 7 will help... [09 Oct 2009]
BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
News Mercer, who is responsible for looking after IT at BAA's seven UK airports including Heathrow, said: "Having somebody else looking after my critical systems, I did not go into that lightly.... [18 Jun 2009]
Nick Gaines
CIO Profile Gaines started his career as a nuclear engineer and has worked within financial services, airports and construction, before taking up the role of BAA's director of business critical systems where he was... [03 Jun 2009]
Super scanners at UK airports
News Airport operator BAA confirmed it had now installed the advanced threat identification X-ray scanners at its seven airports, including Gatwick, Heathrow, and Stansted. Security has been overhauled at... [09 Jul 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... [13 Feb 2008]
BAA calls on India for application management
News Airport group BAA, which owns seven UK airports including Heathrow, is outsourcing its software application management to India with LogicaCMG. The outsourcer will manage more than 400 applications,... [12 Feb 2008]
Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One
News A spokeswoman for BAA said: "It allows domestic passengers to take advantage of the larger international lounge. Biometric data is already in use for border control purposes at other airports in the UK,... [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive
Photo Photo credit: BAA Nick Gaines, business critical systems director for BAA, said the building has a network infrastructure "appropriate for a small city". T5 has been jointly developed by... [13 Jul 2007]
RFID luggage-tracking lands at Heathrow
News The British Airport Authority (BAA) will install the infrastructure on selected check-in desks around the airport. BAA will use the trial to see how the system compares to the current system of barcode... [09 Jul 2007]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News The miSense technology was developed and delivered by a consortium of organisations including Accenture, BAA, the Border & Immigration Agency, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, IER, Raytheon, Sagem and Sita. This data was then... [20 Jun 2007]
Richard Rundle
CIO Profile BAA was bought by Spanish construction business Ferrovial for £10.3bn last year and IT director Richard Rundle's challenges under the new owners are to help simplify the business, deliver higher levels of service and... [06 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment BAA staff also regularly assailed me to check, at least three times before security, that I have no fluids, balms or other substances in my pockets or hand baggage. On each occasion I have been subject to the new... [25 Sep 2006]
UK airports' wi-fi flying high
News Business travellers should prepare themselves for an extra connectivity boost - BAA has announced it will be rolling out wi-fi access across six of its airports this month. BAA has... [14 Mar 2006]
BAA invests £23m in cyber-terror defences
News British Airports Authority (BAA) is investing £23m in a top-secret programme to combat the threat of cyber-terrorism. BAA said it is more concerned about the threat of an electronic... [10 Jun 2005]
Departure lounge limbo costing businesses dear
News This week international airports owner BAA talked about a reduction of that ordeal to just 15 minutes. BT and others, whether using Wi-Fi or other wireless technologies - note the strong 3G signals at... [30 Mar 2005]
