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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. This has already resulted in a complete refurbishment of the passenger security areas at Stansted and transfer passenger... [09 Jul 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]
Heathrow T5: The end in sight for first day blues?
News British Airways (BA) has drafted in 400 extra workers to help reunite passengers with luggage stuck in the backlog created over the past few days. The problems at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 appear to be lessening four days after the less than... [31 Mar 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. Not that it's all plain sailing, or indeed flying, at Heathrow's terminal. [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]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo This shows the RFID reader logging items of luggage in the conveyor to make sure it ends up at the right destination. Meanwhile, Heathrow's Terminal 3 and Emirates Airlines are running a trial of RFID technology to keep track of baggage on flights... [28 Feb 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'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. silicon.com has been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at BAA's brand new Terminal 5 (T5) at... [12 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
British Airways moves towards online check-in
News Conventional check-in desks will be converted to "fast bag drop" desks for those using self-service kiosks to check their luggage in. The move is BA's first step towards simplifying procedures and upgrading facilities over the next two years ahead... [21 Mar 2006]
India diary: Day four - First impressions of Bangalore
Comment I've booked all my internal flights through India's Jet Airways - one of the private airlines set up to compete with the national airline Air India - and check-in at Mumbai's domestic airport is not the headache you would imagine, even though the... [01 Jun 2004]
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