If you’re like most people, your pre-travel to-do list includes booking your own flights, checking yourself in and printing or downloading your own boarding pass. These days, you can add baggage ...

CALGARY, Canada – WestJet today introduced self-serve baggage tagging for its guests flying to the United States from Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal. CALGARY, Canada – WestJet ...

United Airlines will evaluate how the first self-tagging baggage and check-in kiosks in its domestic system work before deciding whether to deploy the kiosks system-wide. The IBM kiosks let passengers ...

The modern tag is known as an automated baggage tag, and was first tried by many airlines in the early 1990s. Perhaps the earliest airline to implement ABTs system-wide was United, in 1992, according ...

In aviation, bags don’t follow passengers—they follow data. So what type of data is encoded in your luggage tags?

RFID tags for baggage have been on the horizon for some years. Are they now on the verge of being adopted? Pity the poor barcode baggage label. Strapped on a suitcase handle at check-in, it is ...

In January, Hong Kong International Airport announced that it had retrofitted all baggage-tag printers at its check-in counters to accommodate RFID-enabled tags, and also installed RFID interrogators ...

Many of us can probably remember a time before self-checkout lines were commonplace in grocery stores. Today, we see self-checkouts in just about every major grocery store chain in North America. Do ...