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Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can also use the app to click through to ba.com, where they can book flights, manage bookings and check in online. However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business apps and, with the iPhone... [27 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News The MoD hopes the Operational Welfare Fund will also cut down on the number of special flights and convoys required to deliver goodwill parcels into militarised areas, which put service personnel under additional risk in... [15 Oct 2009]
Reserve Forecast Aids in Saving Millions at America West Airlines
White Paper The challenge was to accurately staff pilot and flight attendant reserve crews for nearly 600 daily flights. Like most major airlines, America West Airlines schedules and assigns full flight crews for hundreds of daily... [19 Sep 2009]
British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News He added the airline currently has no plans to let travellers make mobile phone calls during its flights, as its customers are not interested in such a service. Sita's Airline IT Trends Survey 2009 shows 70 per cent of... [01 Jul 2009]
Minority Report: My predictions for the Mac developer event
Comment Two thousand years ago, people poked about in chickens' entrails and studied the flights of other more-fortunate birds to determine the will of the gods. What will Apple unveil at its upcoming developer conference? [03 Jun 2009]
Photos: Bing! Microsoft revamps its search
Photo You can use Bing to book flights and hotels, find deals, or just to learn about travel destinations. When entering a query, such as flights from San Francisco to Maui, Kumo returns not just flight... [29 May 2009]
Airline gets first NFC boarding
News The service, whereby a boarding pass containing a QR code is sent by SMS, MMS or email to travellers' phones, can now be used for almost all short and medium-length flights run by the airline. Air France is testing out... [20 Apr 2009]
IBM Case Study: British Airways
White Paper IBM helped British Airways introduce a facility that allows frequent flyers to use their mobile phones to check in for flights out of the UK, select their seats and access information on arrivals and departures. [16 Mar 2009]
MetService Provides Weather Information With Instrumentation ModelKit Gauges
White Paper The company wanted to develop MetDISPLAY-II which displays crucial weather information to air traffic control to monitor and assist flights in and out of the country. MetService provides weather and information... [10 Mar 2009]
All Ryanair planes to offer mobile calls by 2010
News By 2010, passengers on all Ryanair planes will be able to make calls and send SMSes during their flights. From today, more than 20 planes flying to and from Dublin will take to the skies offering travellers mile-high... [19 Feb 2009]
Photos: Classic Iris radar gets vision back
Photo The displays can be viewed for the first time by the public at TNMOC, replaying historical recordings of flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport. The tech that kept the airspace over southern England safe for... [16 Feb 2009]
Mile high text for British Airways' business fliers
News Laptop-wielding travellers with GSM data cards will also be able to get internet access on the flights. He added it may consider trialling voice on outbound daytime flights to gauge customer interest but... [27 Jan 2009]
Photos: Computers usher in pilots' vision 2.0
Photo The Vision Based Inspection computer system can be used in safety inspections to examine airplane fuselages between flights. Enhanced vision technologies could be used to help the military pinpoint potential targets, aid... [16 Jan 2009]
Doctor, doctor my ears are ringing
News Hospitals are one of the latest havens from the mobile ringtone to come under threat and the move to allow phones on wards follows a decision by European regulators to pave the way for mobile calls on flights. [06 Jan 2009]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' passes first test
Photo At the moment, tests of Watchkeeper are being conducted in Israel, as flights of UAVs are prohibited in UK civil airspace. The Ministry of Defence's £800m vision of an unmanned spy plane got a step closer with the first... [26 Nov 2008]
