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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. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later.
[29 Apr 2008]
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]
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]
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]
whitepaper McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered a five-year contract with Matrics to supply RFID tags for use in tracking passenger luggage, as part of the airport's commitment to improving customer safety and satisfaction.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Take a look at this animated scenario in which airport workers load four jumbo jets with luggage. How exactly do the Intel Itanium 2 processor's parallelism, bandwidth, execution resources and large integrated cache contribute to its high-end...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Take a look at this animated scenario in which airport workers load four jumbo jets with luggage. Intel's second-generation Intel® Itanium® 2 processor can handle the most demanding high-end enterprise and technical computing solutions.
[10 Apr 2008]
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]
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]
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. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also...
[28 Mar 2008]
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]
Photo This shows the RFID reader logging items of luggage in the conveyor to make sure it ends up at the right destination. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in Barcelona in February.silicon...
[28 Feb 2008]
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]
News These included everything from getting a big wallet and keeping your laptop in your hand luggage, to carrying spare USB sticks and - for when the laptop battery inevitably dies - good old pen and paper.
[25 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Comment A hair pin shorted across the terminals of a laptop battery will glow red hot and melt in a few seconds, time enough to set fire to your hand luggage. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and...
[10 Jan 2008]
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]
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