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News Emirates has become the latest airline to announce it will be allowing travellers to use their mobile phones during flights. Emirates will be able to control the system to limit the annoyance factor of mobile addicts, and will be able to silence...
[09 Nov 2006]
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]
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. Those with miSense cards can use a dedicated self...
[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]
Leader In the last few months a number of airlines have committed to offering mobile service, Emirates being the most recent. So it's interesting to note Emirates' approach here - offering in-flight calls at prices "comparable" to roaming rates.
[09 Nov 2006]
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]
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. The miSense technology was developed and delivered by a...
[20 Jun 2007]
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]
News At the beginning of the year, Emirates claimed to be the first in the air with broadband as it began to roll out the Tenzing system across its fleet. On its side, Tenzing claims that its in-flight email and SMS systems are used by Cathay Pacific...
[22 Jul 2004]
Comment Emirates rings up first in-flight mobile call So long as the price of flights doesn't increase substantially, I think it's a worthwhile investment! With the Easter weekend now a distant memory and all the chocolate eggs polished off, silicon.com...
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment It has just beaten Emirates, another 'net in the sky' frontrunner. At $30 per long-haul flight (or a planned $20 or so for long-haul flights under six hours - mid-haul, perhaps? Lufthansa is crowing about its rollout of wireless net access inside...
[02 Jun 2004]
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