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BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
News BAA's tech team have had a busy past year with offshoring a large part of its IT, the opening of Heathrow T5 and the sale of Gatwick Airport. Another area of focus for the group is how to uncouple the infrastructure and... [18 Jun 2009]
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. As a result of the problems, EasyJet had to cancel more than 60... [26 Sep 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 can slash queues... [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 the US. [03 Jul 2008]
Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One
News Biometric data is already in use for border control purposes at other airports in the UK, including Gatwick and Manchester Airport. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric... [08 Feb 2008]
Airlines defrost planes with Met Office tech
News David Jones, general manager for ground operations compliance at BA, said in a statement: "This helps to reduce delays for our customers who are flying on our UK domestic network and helps us to maintain a robust operation at our main... [08 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick Gatwick airport trialled fingerprinting technology at immigration this autumn. On a more positive note, the public sector - both central and local - has been able... [19 Dec 2007]
CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven... [16 Oct 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. A Home Office spokeswoman explained that Sierra Leone was chosen because the main flight into... [09 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...
Comment My journey here from London was good - direct always helps - but I can't get out of my head an exchange with an official sitting under the huge Departures sign that hangs over the security check at Gatwick. [08 Oct 2007]
Biometric airport security flies high with passengers
News Iris was launched at London's Heathrow in March 2006 and the system is operational at Birmingham Terminal 1, Gatwick's North and South terminals, Heathrow terminals 1 to 4 and Manchester Terminals 1 and 2. [27 Jun 2007]
Iris scanning lands at Gatwick
News Iris recognition-based biometric technology has been rolled out at Gatwick Airport's South Terminal. The installation of Iris at Gatwick South completes the rollout of this biometric tech to nine key UK... [17 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits
Comment Written on BA6947 flying from Malaga to Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London a day later IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as conventional TV content seems to be... [30 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Close encounters of the mobile kind
Comment Written on BA2192 flying Dallas Fort Worth to London Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via my home wi-fi connection the next day Mobile phone users never cease to amaze, frustrate and entertain me. [27 Feb 2007]
Job losses at Neteller as US law bites
News A further 30 roles will be lost in the UK, when operations move from Gatwick to Cambridge in March. Neteller, the online payment processing group, is to shed around 250 jobs at sites in Canada and the UK. [16 Feb 2007]