The International Air Transport Association has committed to developing a global plan to standardize and mandate RFID inlays in luggage tags, citing a similar tracking program adopted by Delta ...

RFID promises to be a simple solution for baggage handling, but is technology too expensive for cash-strapped airlines to integrate? For three days last Christmas week, Janet Suckling haunted the ...

German messenger-bag manufacturer Bagjack is deploying a new RFID-based anti-counterfeiting solution from Berlin startup Serfides, intended to help confirm the authenticity of goods, as well as ...

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — Victor DaRosa stands under a scorching afternoon sun, loading bags onto a jet heading to Detroit. As each suitcase climbs up the conveyor belt into the plane, a small computer ...

An airport employee checks a bag on a carousel in the baggage claim area of O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 2. Credit: Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune/MCT/Getty Images Delta announced Friday it ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. today announced that it plans to test the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) bag tags this fall on selected flights from Jacksonville, Fla., through its Atlanta hub — a ...

Delta Air Lines plans to soon start using baggage tags with RFID technology to track bags more efficiently and accurately. The idea is to help avoid misdirected bags and give customers a more accurate ...

Delta is implementing a new $50 million baggage-handling system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is expected to reduce the number of the airline’s lost and mishandled ...

Eighteen months after launching its Next Generation Check-In (NGCI) system using radio frequency identification to automate baggage check-in at Perth Airport, Qantas Airways has permanently deployed ...

Victor DaRosa stands under a scorching afternoon sun, loading bags onto a jet heading to Detroit. As each suitcase climbs up the conveyor belt into the plane, a small computer verifies that it ...

Delta Air Lines, already one of America’s top-performing carriers for baggage-handling reliability, is investing $50 million in the roll-out of Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) technology to further minimize ...

JetBlue wants to be the first airline to track passenger baggage across its network using a computer chip embedded in the bag tag. "I want to be the worldwide launch customer" for radio frequency ...