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Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo Airport workers at Manchester and London City airports will be able to volunteer for the cards from later this year and ID cards will be made available to the rest of the UK public from 2012. This is the first glimpse at... [30 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots have also been dropped this week by the Home Office with trials planned for Manchester and London City airports both scrapped. The government has been... [01 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]
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... [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... [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]
First ID card trials announced for airport staff
News ID cards will be trialled at two airports from autumn 2009. In a statement on Wednesday the Home Office said: "Manchester and London City airports have agreed to work with the Home Office as part of the... [06 Nov 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]
UK flights grounded by air traffic control glitch
News Airports across the south of England saw hundreds of flights cancelled yesterday following a computer problem affecting the air traffic control system. The problem occurred just before 17:00(BST) yesterday and was... [26 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News I expect to be able to issue the cards to British citizens working in UK airports next year. Smith insisted the Home Office is making good progress in talks with airport operators and unions about... [25 Sep 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment You can do some work in airports these days but when you're stuck in a jam on the motorway, you are completely unproductive," says Matt Taylor, Easynet senior business development manager. Telepresence may be expensive... [30 Jun 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News GPS-enabled handsets could also be used to track passengers in airports, with the potential to save airlines $600m by cutting flight delays, with messages sent to wayward passengers to move them to gates more... [20 Jun 2008]
Vodafone gets speedy with broadband
News Vodafone's high speed mobile broadband network has been in place in London and British airports since 2007. Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million people this... [12 May 2008]
RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News As Heathrow Terminal Five (T5) recovers from go-live glitches in its baggage handling systems, air travel IT specialist Sita has released research showing 42.4 million bags are lost in airports across the world. [18 Apr 2008]
