SPONSORED CONTENT Airport baggage handling areas are demanding environments. Baggage tractors, tugs, carts and other ground support equipment operate continuously in confined spaces, often close to buildings, machinery and other...
Ink Innovation and Luggage Logistics have announced a new partnership that connects baggage operations with passenger service delivery. Ink Innovation is a travel technology company specialising in airline service delivery,...
Textron Ground Support Equipment has launched its next-generation lithium-electric baggage tractor, the TUG MX4. With a top speed of 15 mph, the TUG MX4 was built with direct customer feedback...
Smiths Detection has announced that the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) has certified its iCMORE Automatic Prohibited Items Detection System (APIDS) algorithm for use with OneTray and Cassioli trays in...
Airportr, the travel technology company that pioneered Baggage-as-a-Service, enabling checked-in passengers to have their luggage collected from their home or hotel and delivered directly to their flight, has partnered with...
dnata is advancing the next phase of its growth in Italy by offering permanent employment to 300 colleagues across its airport operations in Rome and Milan. The move, effective from...
Better connected systems helped drive down mishandled bag rates by 23% last year, SITA has reported, but mishandling still costs the commercial aviation industry USD 6.3 billion a year in...
In this guest article, Jan Willem Kappes, CCO of Assaia, discusses how AI is transforming baggage handling operations. If you’ve travelled by air even a handful of times, you’ll know...
SITA released a new white paper, Total Airport Management, in March this year which outlines why optimising individual processes is no longer enough and how airports can unlock hidden capacity...
Aviation IT provider SITA has launched SITA Bag Radar, a cloud-based baggage analytic solution that aims to tackle baggage mishandling using data. According to SITA, baggage mishandling is one of...