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Super scanners at UK airports
News Explosives, guns, liquids and knives are easier for security staff to spot using about 200 dual-imaging cabin luggage scanners. Airport operator BAA confirmed it had now installed the advanced threat identification X-ray scanners at its seven... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment Like the rest of you, I have stood in line as my luggage is X-rayed, followed by the occasional arms-outstretched pat down. This morning I experienced a second detection success and my nail scissors were confiscated at Heathrow T4. [29 Apr 2008]
RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News Baggage mishandling was the largest cause of delay in reuniting passengers with their luggage (49 per cent of cases). At T5, the problem wasn't with the luggage tags. As Heathrow Terminal Five (T5) recovers from go-live glitches in its baggage... [18 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?
Comment It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last week - and my luggage even came with me. I was off the plane - and had picked up my luggage - and sailed out of the airport... [16 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale systems, mobile phones and security systems. Watch passengers struggling with their luggage for an... [14 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment My colleague was on a flight to Vancouver yesterday and had to leave (and arrive) for a week's skiing without any luggage. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers, unsurprisingly, astonished it... [03 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up For starters the newly opened facility had problems with the baggage system, which led to all luggage check-in at the new terminal being suspended. Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to... [28 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News On Thursday evening the problems with the baggage system led to all luggage check-in at the new terminal being suspended. Reports said some passengers had to wait up to two-and-a-half hours after their flight had landed before getting their luggage... [27 Mar 2008]
Why did tech ground Heathrow baggage?
News The exact cause of the technical fault that caused two days of luggage chaos at Heathrow remains unknown. Airport group BAA has still not been able to pinpoint the exact software glitch that left 6,000 British Airways (BA) long-haul passengers... [21 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned during the course of the trial which will cost £150... [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. Passengers flying to and from Dubai out of Terminal 3 with Emirates airline will have a tiny... [13 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo Ground crew can use PCs connected to the IP network to access up-to-date information on flights, passengers who have checked in and luggage issues. This shows one of the desks at BA's Heathrow Airport Control (HAC) centre which is now based in T5. [12 Feb 2008]
BAA's RFID trial prepares for takeoff
News Airport operator BAA is preparing to kick off an RFID luggage-tracking trial at Heathrow. The proliferation of wireless technologies in its airport environments has led BAA to work with wireless professional services provider Red-M, to ensure the... [14 Nov 2007]
Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
White Paper For the airline industry, getting passengers to their destinations on time and with their accompanying luggage is a feat that requires identifying and tracking millions of items daily. In 1999, British Airways completed live trials of Tag-it smart... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive
Photo Once they have checked in, using one of the 96 self-service check-in kiosks, 56 manned check-in desks or BA's online service - the first 'wave' - they can put their luggage into the state-of-the-art baggage handling system. [13 Jul 2007]
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