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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. The scanners, produced by the Smiths Group, allow laptops to be carried in bags and cut queuing times for passengers... [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. For speed and convenience of travel I never check a bag into the hold and have found ways of living with one or two smaller... [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]
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. Meanwhile, back on the ground and travellers flying with British Airways (BA) and other Oneworld... [28 Mar 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 is one of the 96 bag drop points air travellers will be using when they pass through the terminal. [12 Feb 2008]
US plane security turns on batteries
News The batteries in carry-on luggage are also subject to certain rules. New rules from the US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) that took effect in the US on 1 January ban travellers from carrying loose lithium batteries in checked... [04 Jan 2008]
Photos: High-tech London St Pancras on track
Photo The area is floored with cedar, which the renovation team found is the quietest surface for wheeling luggage trolleys over. Travellers will be able to access the free wi-fi network - which also covers the rest of the station - with space to sit and... [08 Oct 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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment So far I have been lucky in that my checked baggage has not gone astray and at my distant destination the unloading has been well-ordered with first class and business travellers' luggage arriving first, which is in complete contrast to the... [25 Sep 2006]
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]
Departure lounge limbo costing businesses dear
News Last week silicon.com spoke to SITA chairman and BA CIO Paul Coby about the possibility of airlines adopting RFID electronic tagging technology, potentially for documents as well as luggage. Around 35 per cent of business travellers spend three to... [30 Mar 2005]
Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped
News US airline Delta recently announced it would be using RFID to track travellers' luggage. The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. [08 Jul 2004]
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