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RSS airports heathrowBAA 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. BAA's Heathrow airport with Terminal 5 in the foreground Airport... [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. BAA is also... [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 accountable for... [03 Jun 2009]
Virtual strip scanners move closer for EU airports
News The EU has taken another step towards the introduction of "virtual strip search" full body scanners at airports. The meeting looked at key privacy, regulatory and operational issues surrounding the scanners' use and the... [10 Nov 2008]
UK flights grounded by air traffic control glitch
News The problem occurred just before 17:00(BST) yesterday and was resolved by 19:00(BST) with operations at Heathrow, Gatwick and other airports being hit. Airports across the south of... [26 Sep 2008]
Airports spending $3bn to be tech high fliers
News Airport operators are shelling out on technology in an effort to attract more passengers, according to an investment survey which predicts airports will spend around $3bn on IT this year. Around half of... [23 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.08.08
Round-Up It is this - along with a couple of getting-in-the-holiday-mood sangrias at the airport bar - that might help to explain why UK airports are such a popular place to wave farewell to your laptop. At... [01 Aug 2008]
Heathrow Airport: Lost laptop hotspot
News Airports are a hotspot for lost or missing laptops with around 800,000 being misplaced in European and US airports each year. According to research carried out by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by... [30 Jul 2008]
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. High tech security scanners that... [09 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Iris enrolment stations and gates are available at all five Heathrow terminals and at Birmingham, Gatwick and Manchester airports. Biometric technology is to be used to speed up travel between the UK and... [03 Jul 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. This morning I experienced a second detection success and my nail scissors were confiscated at Heathrow T4. [29 Apr 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... [18 Apr 2008]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News Find out which airports have the best internet connectivity - and share your own experiences - at atlarge.com. Airports are the hotspots of choice, accounting for almost half (45 per cent) of wi-fi... [14 Mar 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]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo RFID tags will still carry a barcode containing passenger information to be read by laser scanners at airports without the reader technology. Readers are also being trialled and used in several airports... [14 Feb 2008]
