airports
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 simplify its IT infrastructure and... [09 Oct 2009]
Optimizing PC Refresh Cycles to Maximize Business Value
White Paper PCs, mobile PCs, notebooks or handhelds in corporate offices, conference rooms, remote offices, home offices, airports, cafes, hotels or wherever in the world they happen to be. Understanding the cost impact of PC... [30 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Photo credit: Seth Rosenblatt/CNET silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath went to the Air Transport IT Summit in Cannes last month to take a look at some handheld technology that could help airlines, airports and... [04 Aug 2009]
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]
Continental 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]
Airport Retailer Gains Real-Time Insight into Inventory with New Business Solution
White Paper With more than 50 stores located in 33 airports, InMotion delivers portable entertainment to the travelers market. InMotion Entertainment is the largest electronics airport retailer in the nation. For years, InMotion... [13 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. Air crews in Portugal and Sweden are currently trialling handheld systems... [07 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The debate follows the Home Secretary's decision last week to make ID cards entirely voluntary and scrap trials that would have compelled airside workers and pilots at London City and Manchester airports to carry the... [07 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 As a result, a pilot scheme to issue workers with compulsory cards, which was planned for two airports, Manchester and London City, will not take place. The government has taken the decision to make identity cards... [01 Jul 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 splitting the... [18 Jun 2009]
Toronto Airport Meets ITIL Standards and Takes Support Levels, Change Management to New Heights With HEAT
White Paper The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), formed in 1993, is a nonprofit corporation responsible for ensuring that the greater Toronto's regional system of airports meets current and future air... [12 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]
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. The majority of pilots in the UK do not want ID cards and will fight... [08 May 2009]