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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. Arriving at immigration in Heathrow, Dubai or...
[06 Dec 2006]
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. Baggage is loaded on and off flights in 'tins'. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned...
[14 Feb 2008]
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. This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used...
[20 Jun 2007]
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. The scheme will run until the end of January 2007...
[06 Dec 2006]
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. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in...
[28 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Meanwhile, the first authorised in-flight mobile call was made at 30,000ft on 21 March on Emirates flight EK751 flying between Dubai and Casablanca. BAA, the owner of Heathrow, said yesterday there was a "minor problem with log-ons of the baggage...
[28 Mar 2008]
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