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British airlines test eye scans
News Virgin Atlantic and British Airways plan to launch a biometrics trial that could see up to 2,000 people zip through immigration at London's Heathrow Airport. The trial tests iris-recognition technology administered by EyeTicket and the...
[February 7, 2002, 10:29]
Terminal 5 key to BA's tech-savvy future
News Paul Coby, chief information officer of British Airways, is confident that the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 will signify the coming of age of BA and the completion of its transformation from a company that has been accused in the past of playing...
[September 21, 2006, 16:35]
A Year Ago: Netimperative.com bites the dust
News Lastminute.com, for example, has created a substantial business in the online travel sales market -- but it will shortly face competition from a portal created by British Airways and ten other European airlines.
[May 22, 2001, 6:28]
Expert warns of cracks in e-Borders security
News The British Air Transport Association (Bata), the trade body for UK airlines, recently warned that the system could cause disruption to holiday travellers when it is introduced. The UK Border Agency has a network of immigration liaison officers...
[March 30, 2009, 17:06]
Lufthansa broadband poised to take flight
News Several other major airlines are experimenting with in-flight broadband services, including British Airways, Singapore Airways and Japan Airlines. British Airways began offering the service on a trial basis in February 2003 on a flight between...
[March 22, 2004, 15:40]
netimperative.com bites the dust
News Lastminute.com, for example, has created a substantial business in the online travel sales market -- but it will shortly face competition from a portal created by British Airways and 10 other European airlines.
[May 22, 2000, 11:37]
British Airways looking at onboard Web access
News Three leading airlines: American Airlines, British Airways and Delta Air Lines, are vying to test a new AT&T onboard server which promises reasonably priced email, limited Web surfing and an e-commerce route to an affluent, captive market...
[August 16, 1999, 13:51]
BA offers free Wi-Fi in airport lounges
News Travellers flying with British Airways and other oneworld alliance airlines will soon be able to access wireless broadband for free in UK airport lounges. British Airways (BA) has signed up with BT to provide the Openzone service in its 25 UK...
[March 28, 2008, 12:53]
BA and BAA should make Wi-Fi pay
News In the week in which British Airways finally announced it is retiring its loss-making fleet of Concorde aircraft, airports and beleaguered airlines are looking at additional ways to make money -- and Wi-Fi access provision for travellers is a...
[April 11, 2003, 11:51]
Mobile phones promise paperless air travel
News GPS-enabled handsets could also be used to track passengers in airports, with the potential to save airlines $600m (£305m) by cutting flight delays, with messages sent to wayward passengers to move them to gates more efficiently, Sita explained.
[June 23, 2008, 9:10]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News The British Air Transportation Association (Bata), a trade body that represents airlines, said that its members could "see no benefits" from participating in the scheme. We request that when the Home Office reviews the trials, it talks to airlines...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
BA goes virtual with Vanco network deal
News The airline industry has typically only chosen from within a small, specialist pool of network operators including companies such as Equant, but Timpany said the deal could provide the momentum needed for other airlines to follow BA's lead and...
[February 24, 2005, 15:55]
BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free
News Coby was speaking at the Sita Air Transport IT Summit in Cannes where the annual Airline IT Trends Survey 2009 found that, among the 116 airlines questioned, operating spend on IT and telecoms will fall to its lowest level since 2002 this year...
[July 3, 2009, 9:04]
In-flight Wi-Fi prepares to take off
News More than two years after airlines had to reroute their plans to install Internet service, the idea of offering in-flight Web connections to passengers is again on the carriers' radar. In 2001, Connexion by Boeing teamed with American Airlines...
[March 29, 2004, 14:55]
Europe edges closer to mobile phones on planes
News According to an Ofcom spokesperson, the drive towards the new proposals has come from OnAir (a joint venture with Airbus and the airline industry body SITA) and Aeromobile (a joint venture between the Norwegian telco Telenor and the transport...
[October 18, 2007, 13:10]
Boeing's sky-high Net access takes off
News Japan Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines System will begin service in 2004. Connexion will share service with participating airlines. The company will also charge airlines fees for installing the system.
[February 7, 2003, 8:00]
Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
White Papers With Tag-it, smart labels the airlines now have highly reliable, economical baggage identification and tracking solution for positive passenger-to-baggage verification and reconciliation. In 1999, British Airways completed live trials of Tag-it...
[August 2, 2007, 3:32]
RFID luggage tags mooted
News In the future we think airlines will move towards radio frequency tags, which are easier and quicker to track and can be placed anywhere on a bag. British Airways (BA) currently has no plans to ditch the bar-coded bag tags but a spokesman said it...
[February 24, 2005, 11:00]
Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs
News Although civil libertarians and privacy advocates decry such experiments as invasive, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), airlines and other industry groups are carefully monitoring the 10...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
Airlines fear delays from e-Borders surveillance tech
News Home Office plans to begin using the £1.2bn e-Borders system at airports, rail and ferry terminals from April risk delaying UK travellers, according to the British Air Transport Association (Bata), the trade body for UK airlines.
[February 12, 2009, 10:14]
