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News For a start, the flights aren't completely free, as customers will have to pay airport tax and any travel insurance in order to get to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Nice, Paris, Prague, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Washington. [12 May 2004]
Kiosk plans take flight for Lastminute
News The cheap ticket internet company is to set up retail kiosks in each of Heathrow's terminals to give travelers access to its e-tail services while waiting for their promised flights. Lastminute.com is expanding from clicks into bricks to give... [16 Aug 2001]
Win tickets to Benetton F1 launch in Barcelona
News The flights leave from Heathrow on Saturday 15 January and return Monday 17 January. The lucky winners will win return flights to Barcelona and accommodation for the weekend as well as entry to the launch party for the new car at the Museu D'Art de... [05 Jan 2000]
Virus update: Sasser grounds BA as hype takes hold
News The outage meant delays to 21 British Airways flights and disruption for thousands of travellers. But closer to home the biggest victim so far has been British Airways, which lost the use of around half its check-in desk computers at Heathrow's... [05 May 2004]
BA ups IT investment to £85m
News Work is also progressing on the new Terminal Five at Heathrow, where BA will switch all its Heathrow flights to from 2008. This is currently being used at Edinburgh and will be trialled at Manchester and London Heathrow later this year. [08 Sep 2004]
BA to roll out email to workers' mobiles
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]
British Airways moves towards online check-in
News British Airways (BA) is to scrap traditional check-in desks for passengers on UK domestic flights from the end of next month as part of its continued investment in automated check-in systems. From April 25, the only way for passengers on internal... [21 Mar 2006]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News Biometric fingerprint and iris scans will be used for screening air passengers on Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong as part of a trial at London's Heathrow Airport. The miSense trial, which began last month and... [06 Dec 2006]
Photos: Offshore, inside India's IT capital Bangalore
Photo Since the end of October British Airways has been running its first direct flights from London Heathrow to Bangalore at the heart of India's IT industry. While new routes are launched all the time by airlines this one reflects the shift in global... [28 Nov 2005]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. To register for miSense, passengers must undergo... [06 Dec 2006]
Web services slash CO2 emissions
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]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
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]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo Meanwhile, Heathrow's Terminal 3 and Emirates Airlines are running a trial of RFID technology to keep track of baggage on flights to and from Dubai. We also took a look at the technology which keeps the terminal and BA's Heathrow operations up and... [28 Feb 2008]
Why did tech ground Heathrow baggage?
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]
Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?
Comment Then we had the story about how Air France was putting back and extending a trial to allow use of mobiles on flights. There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning... [18 Apr 2007]
