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Photos: Driverless pod cars offer a glimpse of the future of transport
Photo From next year, travellers at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 will be able to step into one of these vehicles and be whisked straight to their destination - all without the need for a driver. The driverless vehicles are... [13 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Airport IT supplier Sita developed this mobile web app for air travellers, currently being trialled by Malaysia Airlines, that allows them to check flight schedules and fares from their phones. Last month marked the 40th... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo Airport workers at Manchester and London City airports will be able to volunteer for the cards from later this year and ID cards will be made available to the rest of the UK public from 2012. The cards will also be able... [30 Jul 2009]
Continental Airlines Improves Airport Gate Experience With Presentation Technology
White Paper Continental Airlines carries 65 million passengers a year to 265 airports around the world, and it strives to ensure that every one of those customers has the best possible travel experience. In order to improve access... [30 Jul 2009]
Photos: The tech keeping the world's airports flying high
Photo By helping cut the distance that ground crews need to travel across the airport to manually check on ground facilities, the app can reduce fuel costs and save workers' time. Air crews in Portugal and... [07 Jul 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News In the future, your mobile phone could become your holiday concierge, reminding you to check-in the minute you arrive at the airport or automatically ordering a taxi for you when your plane lands. For instance, if you... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: 10 useful Android apps
Photo Perfect for knocking up that last minute e-card birthday greeting at the airport (so you don't return home to the dog house). The app also offers info on 'this weekend ' - aka the time when Transport for London is most... [12 May 2009]
Airline gets first NFC boarding
News The system is a joint project between Nice Côte d’Azur Airport and Air France, and uses technology from travel IT company Amadeus and transport tech vendor IER. As part of a pilot that will run until the... [20 Apr 2009]
IronPort Ensures Safe Email Travel for One of the World's Largest Airport Authorities
White Paper Like many organizations, French airport group Aeroports de Paris is facing a massive amount of incoming spam. For some employees, spam accounts for 75-95 percent of incoming mail.de Paris IT department started looking... [21 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News In response to silicon.com's FoI request, the IPS said that readers will become more widely available as the cards are rolled out to the UK population, starting with airport workers and volunteers later this year. [04 Feb 2009]
Virgin IT whisks travellers to departure in six mins
News Travellers using Heathrow airport are now checking in in as little as six minutes thanks to Virgin Atlantic's central computer system. The system then automatically books a limo pick-up on an outside company's system,... [19 Dec 2008]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News March saw silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson take a look around Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5, billed as the most technologically advanced airport terminal in the world. Peter Cochrane's top business... [12 Dec 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment Shenoy gets all the way to London from Bangalore in about twice the time his colleagues take to travel to the airport to catch a domestic flight. The new airport was first conceived 17... [30 Jul 2008]
Tech workers part of the jet set
News But not everyone is as familiar with the airport departure lounge, as a significant proportion (24 per cent) said they never get to travel abroad for work. Wi-fi at the airport... [23 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment At a modest estimate I have passed through well over 200 airport terminals - and hence their security systems - right across the planet including Australia, Europe, the Far East, the Middle East and Scandinavia, since 9/11. [29 Apr 2008]
