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Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment Shenoy gets all the way to London from Bangalore in about twice the time his colleagues take to travel to the airport to catch a domestic flight. When Shenoy arrived at the airport last... [30 Jul 2008]
Airline Soars with Secure and Simple Flight Briefing System
White Paper Britannia wanted to enable staff to access the briefing information securely online, whether in the airport or remotely when abroad. RSA SecurID ensures that the pre-flight briefing information is secure... [03 Jul 2008]
UK Airport Handles More Calls With Self-Service Automation Through IVR
White Paper Newcastle International Airport wanted to reduce the burden on front-desk customer service staff through a more flexible and automated call handling system. The Nortel developer team also designed two call handling... [25 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment At a modest estimate I have passed through well over 200 airport terminals - and hence their security systems - right across the planet including Australia, Europe, the Far East, the Middle East and Scandinavia, since 9/11. [29 Apr 2008]
Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products
White Paper Athens International Airport has established a reputation as one of the most efficiently run airports in the world. Handling around 1.2 million passengers a month, the airport depends on state-of-the-art... [16 Apr 2008]
IDTechEx Case Study: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, Baggage, USA
White Paper McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered a five-year contract with Matrics to supply RFID tags for use in tracking passenger luggage, as part of the airport's commitment to improving... [10 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment On the bright side, thanks to passengers refusing to be finger printed, problems with the "high-tech" computer security systems failing were avoided and as a result planes managed to leave the airport with passengers... [03 Apr 2008]
Athens International Airport (AIA) Boosts Productivity
White Paper Everything, front-to-back, including the database and the applications, from the Flight Information Display Systems (FIDS) used for passenger information and the Universal Flight Information System... [02 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to temporarily suspend plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through the... [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. On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and... [27 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. [17 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Z is for Zurich Airport Sita has had general talks with the UK government about future border control systems and has been involved with developing a number of precursors to these technologies, including the miSense... [21 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo Readers are also being trialled and used in several airports around the world, including Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Paris Charles De Gaulle and Milan Malpensa Airport. Information on the barcode or chip guides the luggage to... [14 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Heathrow airport is trialling RFID tracking technology that will help make the nightmare of lost and mishandled luggage a thing of the past for travellers. Airport operator BAA hopes this chip could save... [13 Feb 2008]
Photos: Passenger's eye view of Heathrow Terminal 5
Photo One of the 96 self-check-in kiosks, also seen at other BA airport terminals. Here is one of the towers that mark out the different sections of T5 and holds digital displays showing flight and check-in... [13 Feb 2008]
