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News Technology firms ALSTEC, Arinc, Arup, Fujitsu and Motorola are partnering with BAA in running the trial. BAA hopes to recoup the £150,000 cost of the six-month trial from efficiency savings in baggage handling and reductions in the cost of...
[13 Feb 2008]
News The British Airport Authority (BAA) will install the infrastructure on selected check-in desks around the airport. BAA will use the trial to see how the system compares to the current system of barcode scanning in terms of keeping track of bags.
[09 Jul 2007]
Leader Information systems are a huge concern for the BAA team that's masterminding the £4.2bn project. BAA CIO Paul Coby has said the wireless tagging technology will not be used on the baggage system immediately because of cost and logistics...
[20 Feb 2006]
News The system is modelled on one already in use at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and is being deployed at Heathrow by British Airports Authority (BAA), which is working with IT services company Steria.
[22 Jan 2004]
Photo Photo credit: BAA Nick Gaines, BAA business-critical systems director, explained that whatever was built needed to be integrated back into the existing Heathrow infrastructure. He said: "T5 is a technology programme that spreads across BAA.
[17 Jul 2007]
News A statement from BAA, which operates Heathrow, said the introduction of fingerprinting technology would be "temporarily delayed" following a meeting with the Information Commissioner and the Border and Immigration Agency.
[26 Mar 2008]
News Unite, the union which represents workers in the civil air transport sector, wants "full consultation" with airport group BAA after it was revealed it is in talks with the Home Office over the plan. BAA confirmed it was talking to the Home Office...
[20 Feb 2008]
News Heathrow Express, a BAA company, was absolved of blame by the judge in the case and the company said it co-operated with the investigation. A statement said: "The individuals convicted of fraud were employed by a financial services company...
[08 Sep 2003]
News Walsh added that the backlog of bags generated by the problems is not affecting the day-to-day running of the baggage system and the issues are being addressed by a team of engineers and IT specialists from both BA and Heathrow operator BAA.
[31 Mar 2008]
Photo We also saw exactly how BAA and BA will implement all the technology in T5. Photo credit: BAA Jointly developed by the BAA and BA, T5 is due to open on 27 March 2008.silicon.com got a behind-the-scenes look at this five-year project.
[13 Dec 2007]
News The British Airports Authority (BAA) also welcomed the use of RFID to help cut the number of lost bags but said significant obstacles to mainstream deployment still remain. A BAA spokeswoman said: "One of the problems is the affordability.
[23 Feb 2005]
News In the written evidence submitted to the committee, BA said: "A number of the issues were caused by the incorrect setup of the system for live operation by BAA or its contractors and by unexpected software errors.
[08 May 2008]
Comment I'm surprised BAA didn't take a leaf out of the rail industry's book. Perhaps BA and BAA were a tad over-ambitious in transferring all BA operations to the new terminal in one go. One bright spot - the data commissioner told BAA exactly what they...
[03 Apr 2008]
News Business travellers should prepare themselves for an extra connectivity boost - BAA has announced it will be rolling out wi-fi access across six of its airports this month. BAA has picked The Cloud to install and maintain the wi-fi network.
[14 Mar 2006]
Photo Photo credit: BAA Photo credit: BAA T5 has been jointly developed by BAA - which runs the airport - and British Airways which will become the sole airline operating out of T5.silicon.com went along to see how the final preparations are going and to...
[13 Jul 2007]
News Behind the scenes at BA and BAA's mega-project After taking five years to build at a cost of £4.3bn, Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport is finally open for business and is set to become one of the most technologically advanced airport terminals in the...
[27 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. BAA said it expected to pay compensation to BA over the failure of the...
[21 Feb 2008]
whitepaper BAA is at the heart of the world's transport network. BAA selected a network-attached storage (NAS) solution based on the HP StorageWorks NAS E7000 system. It is the largest single airport operator in the world - and a major commercial landlord...
[21 May 2004]
whitepaper This white paper addresses the BAA requests using the MachineTalker sensor based wireless networks. The intelligent sensor-based wireless products of MachineTalker, Inc.when used inside shipping containers to provide on-board detection of events...
[04 Jan 2005]
Comment BAA staff also regularly assailed me to check, at least three times before security, that I have no fluids, balms or other substances in my pockets or hand baggage. On each occasion I have been subject to the new security regime inflicted by BAA...
[25 Sep 2006]
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