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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]
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. Lost laptops More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001 I have an idea, take the value of lost equipment and the... [03 Apr 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on... [28 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]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News Let's hope St Pancras doesn't start enforcing the 'one item of hand luggage' rules of the UK airports - something which has really got the goat of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane. How did 25 million records get 'lost in the post'? [29 Nov 2007]
RFID luggage-tracking lands at Heathrow
News Heathrow Airport is to trial RFID technology to track luggage as it moves around the airport as it aims to reduce the amount of bags that get lost in the system. Heathrow will become the largest airport in Europe to trial the tech for this purpose... [09 Jul 2007]
India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday
Comment Sadly checking in for the flight up to Hyderabad was much more painful - a long and slow queue to hand over our luggage and then a hot and irritating hour waiting for the bus to the domestic terminal. [04 Mar 2007]
Leader: Who cares about their laptop?
Leader And furthermore, it's probably safe and sad to assume that not all these laptops end up in the hands of airport lost property, given we were told there are criminals who make a living lifting stray items and luggage at airports. [05 Sep 2006]
Mountain of lost laptops builds at UK airports
News Typically it is security staff and not members of the public who hand in lost luggage, the source added, saying the public tend to be more wary of unattended bags at airports now. Business travellers are fuelling a growing mountain of lost laptops... [01 Sep 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Losing my Virginity
Comment Will Sturgeon shares a lost luggage horror story - more proof that airlines (one in particular) must do more to take care of customers. No explanation as to why not or why, when they already knew the luggage wasn't on board, they had let me stand... [26 Jun 2006]
RFID on airline luggage: ROI in three years?
News The report was produced by consultancy BearingPoint in conjunction with German airline Hapagfly and it examined how RFID could be used to cut costs of lost luggage in three European airports. RFID for luggage tracking is feasible but it's not for... [10 Nov 2005]
No more lost luggage: Airlines go for RFID
News British Airways looks likely to be investing in RFID in a bid to cut its lost luggage bills. BA loses around 18 bags per 1,000 it handles and pays customers an average of £55 per lost piece of luggage, largely as a result of the sticker bar codes... [06 Jun 2005]
Airport operator tests RFID for mystery application
News Much interest has focused on the use of RFID tags to replace barcodes on luggage but it is likely that global standards would have to be in place before the technology was widely adopted by airlines. Ditching bar-coded bag tags for RFID could slash... [29 Apr 2005]
Leader: RFID - not if, but when
Leader It was announced this week that adopting RFID could slash airlines' $1bn lost luggage bill and Marks and Spencer is planning to extend its RFID trials. RFID. It's a technology that has matured, at least in the mind of CIOs, from an expensive toy to... [25 Feb 2005]
