baggage
RSS baggageLeader: Who cares about their laptop?
Leader David Elliot, the chairman of Excess Baggage which handles lost property at a number of UK airports, told silicon.com all laptops his company sells at auction are wiped clean of all data, which is reassuring. [05 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment After 9/11, an occasional lapse of memory meant my hand baggage continued to contain items no longer permitted in the cabin. To be honest my pen is much more of a weapon than anything else in my baggage, not to mention the metal knife and fork I... [29 Apr 2008]
RFID Streamlines Processes, Saves Tax Dollars
White Paper Airports can increase the effectiveness of baggage screening and security and reduce labor and maintenance costs by moving baggage sorting from many terminals to a centralized facility. RFID technology has been around for more than half a century. [23 Aug 2005]
Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco
News Video: Heathrow T5's cutting-edge baggage tech Walsh admitted there were issues with the baggage system software but added this wasn't the main factor which caused the situation to escalate. The opening day problems at Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5... [08 May 2008]
Delta promises end to lost luggage with RFID
News When the system is installed, it will be able to track bags from check-in, where RFID tags will be attached, until they are dropped off at the baggage carousel at the customer's destination. Tag readers will be located at check-in, along conveyer... [01 Jul 2004]
HP Wireless Solution Takes Flight at Toronto Pearson International Airport
White Paper The GTAA selected HP to develop, install and manage a secure and scalable Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that could flexibly support mission critical applications, such as the Baggage Reconciliation System, Baggage Tracking System and Common... [06 Oct 2006]
Airport IT budgets take off as cost savings take back seat
News Top spending priorities are IT infrastructure projects and security, followed by passenger and baggage processing and the integration of current systems. RFID is still in its infancy in airports, with just eight per cent currently offering RFID... [06 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Flight frustrations
Comment Pity the baggage handlers, security staff, police, aircrews and airlines trying to cope with the high state of emergency. Incomprehensible limitations and rulings on checked baggage and carry-ons just fuelled irritation upon irritation. [22 Aug 2006]
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]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News 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 returning lost baggage to customers. Heathrow airport is trialling RFID tracking technology that will help make... [13 Feb 2008]
Milan airport in systems chaos
News The technical problems led to passengers being guided to the wrong gates, and a malfunction of the baggage handling system. The SEA spokesman claimed most of the technical glitches have now been fixed, although there are still problems surrounding... [27 Oct 1998]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security
Comment Anyway he is being escorted from the aircraft and the search for his baggage and belongings begins. For sure cigarettes, cigars, lighters and matches are hard to spot using today's scanners, and thoroughly searching every passenger and their... [01 Dec 2005]
Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5
Photo Here is the beginnings of the baggage system which will be used in T5A. According to BAA, an automatic baggage handling system will track suitcases whizzing around at 10m per second and pick them out for their destination. [20 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travelling ultra-light
Comment When I am on my own I'm through an airport like a knife through butter - no waiting in line, no bag loss, no baggage claim and mostly no taxi delays. Worse, at every airport, and there were nine on this trip, we had a protracted check-in, and a... [27 Sep 2005]
HP's OpenVMS throws Itanium lifeline
Itanium baggage But the new OpenVMS version also will come with some of the baggage of Itanium. The announcement will accompany a refreshed Itanium server product line that HP will trumpet during a Webcast with chief executive Carly Fiorina on... [17 Jan 2005]
