American Airlines is using high-tech tracking devices to figure out how it can move passengers and their bags through the airport faster and with fewer hassles. When Takeshi Misutake lands at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airportat 9 a.m., a white tag attached to his backpack tracks some of his moves. He volunteered to be part of the [...]

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Airlines like Air France are currently working on the implementation of a mobile NFC Boarding Pass. Some experimental implementations have been realized, but one of the big problems is that there are still very few NFC enabled mobile or smartphones on the market. Read below an excellent post we found on worldmate.com and which explains [...]

Lufthansa Cargo and Mojix recently announced the successful completion of a pilot deployment of the MOJIX STAR passive RTLS (Real Time Location System) system. This RFID installation at the Lufthansa Cargo Center in Frankfurt, Germany is the largest scale such pilot application of passive RFID to date in the air cargo industry. Lufthansa Cargo is [...]

PatentlyApple reported today that Apple has filed a patent for a travel app called iTravel that books flights, hotels and car reservations, as well as providing ticketless check-in using Near Field Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless technology. Apple has already indicated its interest in the ticketing space by filing a patent for “Concert Ticket +”, [...]

RFID Connections interviewed Scot Stelter, Director for Product Marketing at Alien Technology, on the value of RFID for air travelers. Scot’s views can be heard by clicking on “podcast”. So if you don’t have time to read the entire interview now, download it onto your iPod/MP3 player and listen in on your way home. Note: [...]

In a world first, Australian domestic air travellers will soon check themselves and their bags in electronically rather than face long queues at manned counters, under a radical vision for the airport of the future unveiled by Qantas yesterday. It could even mean the bane of the air traveller – lost luggage – might becomejust [...]

The RFID Journal writes about an NFC experience in Nice, France : France’s Nice Côte d’Azur Airport is testing the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID technology to eliminate the need for plastic customer-loyalty cards, and to speed up and simplify such processes as passenger identification, security checks and the awarding of airport loyalty [...]