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News The survey, which was carried out by moneysupermarket.com, also found more than half of respondents are against mobile use on planes - flying in the face of European Commission moves to bring mobile calls to European flights.
[09 May 2008]
News The number of flights arriving in Beijing is predicted to increase by 70 per cent during the Games with peak days of around 1,900 flights, compared to the usual 1,150 average. Beijing's new $3bn airport terminal has completed the rollout of a major...
[31 Mar 2008]
News Around 87 per cent of flights (both arrivals and departures) are due to run today, with a similar proportion operating tomorrow. So far 299 flights have been cancelled due to the problems which first emerged on Thursday when a number of issues...
[31 Mar 2008]
News British Airways (BA) confirmed 80 per cent of scheduled flights will be running from T5 today, including all long-haul destinations. Passengers for flights scheduled for today are now able to check in baggage despite this being suspended on...
[28 Mar 2008]
News Thin clients have already reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,521 tonnes over the last four years - the equivalent of 504 return flights from London to New York -according to research produced by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for thin-client...
[28 Mar 2008]
News British Airways (BA) - the sole airline using T5 - had to cancel 33 flights (departing and arriving) before 14:00(GMT) due to the baggage system problems, although the majority of delayed passengers were moved onto later flights.
[27 Mar 2008]
News In-flight broadband is coming soon for travellers on some American Airlines and Virgin America flights. Aircell, a company that sells air-to-ground telecommunications equipment to airlines, said this week that its in-flight broadband system will be...
[13 Mar 2008]
News Airport group BAA has still not been able to pinpoint the exact software glitch that left 6,000 British Airways (BA) long-haul passengers unable to take hold luggage on flights. The exact cause of the technical fault that caused two days of luggage...
[21 Feb 2008]
News Travellers waiting to board UK-bound flights will now be able to access the larger international departure lounge at Terminal One providing they are willing to undergo the biometric checks. British Airways, BMI and Aer Lingus all offer domestic...
[08 Feb 2008]
News If the figure is scaled up for the rest of the country, it would mean a reduction in CO2 emissions of 14,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to 5,362 return flights from Heathrow to Malaga in Spain. Online services increasingly being rolled out by...
[18 Jan 2008]
News Manchester Airport is using business intelligence (BI) software to help manage passenger flows through security after becoming one of the first UK airports to once again allow people to take more than one item of hand baggage on flights.
[07 Jan 2008]
News But Huish pointed out that the service came into its own in August when airlines were told by security services to be careful of passengers carrying vessels of liquid, which caused major disruptions to flights.
[31 Oct 2007]
News China's Shenzhen Airlines has fitted its planes with communications technology that will allow passengers to use their mobile phones to make voice calls and send email and SMS messages during flights.
[03 Sep 2007]
News Someone searching for flights between Dallas and Phoenix could be served an ad, for example, with specific up-to-the-minute fares from a particular airline along with a button that says "buy now", all within the ad, said a Yahoo!
[02 Jul 2007]
News Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the trial on Cathay Pacific and Emirates flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. Air travellers have backed biometric security checks...
[20 Jun 2007]
News A spokeswoman for JetBlue told silicon.com in-flight text messaging could happen in the near future and said if the company allows mobiles on its flights then they will only be used as "silent options" - meaning passengers would be allowed to send...
[25 Apr 2007]
News Air France will start a six-month trial for passengers to use their mobile phones to make calls and send emails and text messages during flights from July this year. The airline had been due to launch the in-flight mobile service last month but has...
[18 Apr 2007]
News But he said outbound communication will still have an important part to play in business, with companies using it to let customers know in advance about things such as approaching credit limits or delayed flights.
[10 Apr 2007]
News Richard Cushing, retail business manager of in-flight services at BA, said the airline has already seen the level of credit card fraud on flights reduced substantially since the introduction of chip and PIN.
[05 Feb 2007]
News Want to take a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars? Google and Nasa have teamed up to put the space agency's cosmic data online. The Nasa Ames research centre and Google have signed an agreement that could...
[19 Dec 2006]
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