Biometrics Give Increased Area Access At Heathrow
News Biometric passenger checks have been launched at Heathrow that will allow domestic travellers to access more shops and restaurants. The system will also be used at Heathrow's world-class Terminal 5, when it opens next month.
[February 11, 2008, 11:56]
Airports Face Growing Mountain Of Unclaimed Laptops
News Heathrow airport, the busiest international airport in the world, serves millions of business travellers each month, many of whom travel with laptops, but a member of the lost property team at Heathrow airport told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon...
[September 4, 2006, 9:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not only are the last three Concorde flights due in quick succession at London Heathrow, but even bigger forces are gathering overhead. There's something apt in the plane's last flights happening on a day when its natural environment at 57,000 feet...
[October 24, 2003, 15:15]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
News Also, customers can only depart from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester. This offer was hugely popular -- as flights to the US at that time cost much more than £100. For a start, the flights aren't completely free, as customers will have to...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Frequent Fliers: The Biometric Guinea Pigs
News One of the newest biometric experiments began in November in London's Heathrow Airport, where 2,000 frequent fliers on trans-Atlantic flights on Virgin Atlantic and British Airways agreed to have scans of their irises kept in a database as part of...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
Eureka 311 RFID Tags Providing Improved Logistical Control In Airport Catering
White Papers Both these airports use CEGELEC AEG's automated in-flight catering systems to simultaneously handle and manage hundreds of catering trolleys from inbound and for outbound flights, as do London's Heathrow and Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek International...
[June 12, 2004, 0:00]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback We paid for a 5 day cruise on the NCL Norwegian Spirit from Miami to Grand Cayman and Roatan in the Bay Islands back to Miaimi with two Virgin Atlantic flights from Heathrow to Miami thrown in free as advertised.
[March 20, 2005, 23:08]
Startup Spotlight: No Frill Holidays With Just.co.uk
News The database is reportedly complete, but ZDNet staff found destination options to be limited to Greece and the Canary Islands, with no flights being available from Heathrow. Non-essentials such as a holiday rep, airport transfers and meals on short...
[December 7, 2000, 12:26]
CRM Helped BA Survive Strike Action
News The strike action, which stemmed from a dispute between the Transport and General Workers' Union and the airline's catering supplier Gate Gourmet, involved around 1,000 of the airline's ground support staff at Heathrow.
[February 22, 2006, 14:10]
Computer Fault Grounds Aircraft
News According to the BBC, 100 flights at Heathrow Airport were directly affected by the fault as no planes were allowed to take off for 40 minutes. A computer fault delayed a number of flights out of UK airports this morning.
[August 24, 2005, 16:45]
Biometric Checks Get Air-passenger Approval
News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger-screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used in conjunction with a fingerprint reader at...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Market Unmoved By Lastminute.com Results
News Lastminute.com has also announced that it will be installing four computer terminals at Heathrow Airport, and another at the Bhs store on Oxford Street. The kiosks will allow users to buy flights, hotel rooms and cinema and theatre tickets from...
[August 16, 2001, 11:45]
Photos: Google Airport Lounge Takes Off
News Google claims that the average traveller wastes over nine hours a year waiting for flights at UK airports. Google Space is a trial project that offers passengers free acess to applications such as Google Earth, Google Mail and Picasa.
[November 24, 2005, 13:00]
RFID To Track Airport Passengers
News Brennan said the installation of the systems required to run Optag would also be very disruptive to existing airports — but with a new airport, or, for example, Heathrow's T5, installation could occur during construction.
[October 16, 2006, 9:50]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Luton is a long way from Bournemouth, I had been promised Heathrow. I was given a Rise contact who was very helpful and am hopefully off to Brussels in a 4 star hotel from Heathrow on 1st July. I phoned at the appointed time to find he had left the...
[April 19, 2005, 8:43]
BA038 Crash At Heathrow
Blog Comment I was under the impression that all flights into Heathrow were brought down by computer. Whatever the relative power levels of the PM's ECM and mobiles on board, both would have been obliterated by the landing radar.
[January 21, 2008, 17:56]
BA038 Crash At Heathrow
Blog Comment Also the fact that no other 777 flights were grounded tells me that they have a good idea of what happened already . I understand your commet re broad spectrum jamming, but there is also such a thing as upper and lower sidebands in any set of...
[January 21, 2008, 17:09]
BA038 Crash At Heathrow
Blog Comment There was a long period of uncertainty and controversy when the possibility of using twin-engine aircraft for trans-Atlantic commercial flights was first brought under consideration. Having the same thing happen when there is no soft ground within...
[January 21, 2008, 12:53]
Openzone Lands Airport Wi-Fi Deal
News In April 2003, BAA, which is one of the world's largest owners of airports, switched on a BT Openzone Wi-Fi hot spot at Heathrow Terminal 1 in London. Many UK airport lounges will get a Wi-Fi hot spot as part of this deal including Manchester...
[February 19, 2004, 12:55]
Biometrics Touted As Key To Stress-free Flights
News Sita has had general talks with the UK government about future border control systems and has been involved in developing a number of precursors to these technologies, including the miSense biometric security trial at Heathrow Airport.
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
