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RSS car airportUK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The delay to the Manchester rollout is the latest in a long line of setbacks for the £4.6bn scheme: in July this year the government dropped plans to force new airport workers at Manchester and London to get ID cards... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Driverless pod cars offer a glimpse of the future of transport
Photo The driverless vehicles are currently being tested at the airport and are due to be operating between one of T5's business car parks and the terminal building by 2010. From next year, travellers at... [13 Aug 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News For instance, if you are getting out of your car at the airport, the app that has the details of your flight realises you have not checked-in and lights up and asks you whether you want to check-in. In... [03 Jul 2009]
Virgin IT whisks travellers to departure in six mins
News The system then automatically books a limo pick-up on an outside company's system, notifies the passenger of the pick-up time, receives GPS updates on the limo's progress to the airport, prints off the boarding pass and... [19 Dec 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News Z is for Zurich Airport Two individuals suspected of being members of the Serbian gang were picked up by police in Monaco after an officer attending a car crash recognised a man from a photograph... [22 Oct 2008]
How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?
Comment To many, the travails of Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5) won't come as a huge surprise with the airport's infamous delays, lost baggage and struggling infrastructure often making the headlines. Wi-fi at the... [28 Mar 2008]
BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'
News Wi-fi at the airport The airline attributed yesterday's problems to a combination of factors including staff car parking and security and log on problems for baggage handlers. The problems at Heathrow's... [28 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News A BA statement said: "This is not unexpected following one of the most complex and largest airport moves in history. The airline attributed the problems to car parking, delays in staff security screening... [27 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Check in late at an airport and you might miss your flight; arrive late at the cinema and the seats might be sold out. You don't wait until your car runs dry of petrol to pay your fuel tax do you (sorry... [07 Feb 2008]
Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group
Comment Go Ahead is one of the UK's largest public-transport providers, operating various rail franchises, more than 3,500 buses, airport cargo and baggage handling services and car park management. Wireless... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos of the year
Photo Plus, saw how the Heathrow Express trains running between the airport and Paddington are now kitted out with a wi-fi service. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, which... [13 Dec 2007]
Monarch soars with Google search tech
Case Study The airline saw a significant increase in email queries following its introduction of online check-in earlier in the year and the tightening up of airport security last summer. The search tech was easily extended to... [03 Dec 2007]
BlackBerry: And the next killer mobile app is...
News Wi-fi at the airport McDowell said other big BlackBerry-based applications will be killer apps for verticals, such as pushing information on potentially hazardous drug combinations to those working in the healthcare... [02 Nov 2007]
Motorists hit back on road pricing
News Wi-fi at the airport And silicon.com readers - many clearly very unhappy at the prospect of new methods of road charging - came up with a few ideas of their own about how people might want to cheat the system, from... [18 Jun 2007]
Avis revs up mobile wi-fi hotspots
News Travellers can rent an 'Avis Connect' unit for $10.95 per day, with the first portable wi-fi devices now available at San Francisco International Airport. Check out the user generated guide to airport... [23 May 2007]
