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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 technology ensures that a transferring international passenger cannot swap travel documents with a domestic...
[February 11, 2008, 11:56]
Munich Airport Manages ITIL-Based IT Infrastructure Using BMC
White Papers It is one of the fastest-growing hubs in Europe and the world, with domestic flights already exceeding passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport. Munich Airport is a leader in German air transportation. Munich Airport was looking to integrate its IT...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
Munich Airport Manages ITIL-Based IT Infrastructure Using Remedy
White Papers It is one of the fastest-growing hubs in Europe and the world, with domestic flights already exceeding passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport. Munich Airport is a leader in German air transportation. Managing all of these systems and automating...
[October 31, 2004, 2:00]
Challenges Exist In Stabilizing And Enhancing Passenger And Baggage Screening Operations
White Papers In an effort to strengthen the security of commercial aviation, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created and charged with making numerous enhancements to aviation security, including federalizing passenger and baggage screening...
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
Airport Tycoon 3
Downloads You'll begin by buying land and building runways, and then you'll secure both cargo and passenger airline contracts. But be careful, because bad weather, overbooked flights, bottlenecks on the runway, and aircraft collisions are all part of the job.
[December 10, 2006, 19:20]
WorldMate Desktop Companion
Downloads Build and plan itineraries for flights, hotels, car rentals, meetings, cruises and trains; consolidate and coordinate multiple trip itineraries for numerous passengers, and send them by e-mail using WMI files; import existing contacts and meetings...
[August 31, 2005, 21:01]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback A special price was also offered for the recipient to take a second passenger. One thing to notice, the "special price" for a second passenger seems to work out much more expensive than if you bought the cruise on the open market.
[February 1, 2005, 9:04]
McCarran International Airport Improves Passenger Safety With Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology
White Papers McCarran International Airport and Symbol set out to create an efficient, cost-effective and accurate baggage tracking system to support the TSA objective of screening all passenger baggage. McCarran International Airport handles nearly 70,000...
[November 8, 2005, 23:00]
Ryanair Sales Take Off On Web
News Announcing its latest passenger figures, Ryanair said that 90 percent of seats sold in the last 12 months were via its Web site, www.ryanair.com. Online tickets sales now form the vast majority of all flights sold by Ryanair, the Irish budget...
[November 5, 2002, 11:57]
Airline Launches In-flight Text Messaging
News An LCD panel and handset fitted to a passenger's seat will be the mode of communications. Starting July, select Singapore Airlines flights will allow text messages to be sent via Short Messaging Service (SMS) to mobile phone users around the world.
[April 25, 2002, 9:47]
PNR Data Not Reduced, Just Squashed
Blog A new passenger name records (PNR) deal was announced this week by the EU and the US. The new PNR deal lists 19 data fields which will be collected on every passenger. It covers how much information can be handed to US authorities about passengers...
[July 31, 2007, 16:50]
Boeing Plans Webbed Aircraft
News The service isn't limited to Boeing aircraft, and can be fitted to Airbus, BAe, Bombardier and other civil passenger planes. Using the satellites will induce a half-second delay and for security reasons no passenger can network to another passenger...
[July 28, 2000, 9:50]
IPTV Takes Off On Planes With GSM To Follow
News This week Wired reported that US federal law enforcement officials, fearful that terrorists will exploit emerging in-flight broadband services to remotely activate bombs or coordinate hijackings, are asking regulators for the power to begin...
[July 12, 2005, 11:25]
US Demand For Flight Data Worries Europeans
News In accordance with new antiterrorist measures introduced in 2001 and 2002, Washington is in effect requiring airlines to provide them with 39 elements of information from their PNR (passenger-name records) databases, which includes passengers...
[October 7, 2003, 11:15]
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. The miSense trial was aimed at testing the feasibility of advanced passenger screening in the UK...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
'No Mobiles' To Replace 'no Smoking' Signs On Planes
News The illuminated "no smoking" signs have now become outdated since almost universal bans on lighting up on scheduled passenger planes were introduced in the late 1990s. The technology, developed by Airbus and Sita joint venture OnAir, will allow...
[August 7, 2006, 16:10]
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]
Computer Problem Crashes British Airways
News British Airways has laid on extra staff to process passenger information manually. British Airways is battling with a computer system failure that has caused flights to be cancelled, resulted in delays for passengers and it cannot say when the...
[March 19, 2001, 9:43]
Court Outlaws EU-US Passenger Data Transfer
News The judgement follows six pleas by the European Parliament around the exchange of Passenger Name Records (PNR). The so-called no-fly lists compiled with such data - complemented with credit card records - have in recent years forced some flights...
[May 30, 2006, 12:30]
China To Get In-flight Mobile Service By 2009
News Benoit Debains, chief executive of OnAir — which is a joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and airline industry IT body Sita — said in a statement: "China is a significant and fast-growing aviation market and we are proud to be able...
[September 4, 2007, 9:31]
