Wrestling to rip-off fiendishly sticky paper airline luggage tags could become a thing of the past. British Airways has begun customer-trials of new re-useable digital bag-tags. The personalised ...

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 ...

We shop for flights on our laptop, book hotels on our tablet, and have a QR code boarding pass on our smartphone. So why are we still walking up to the ticket counter to get a printed sticker when we ...

The adhesive label that gets wrapped around the handle of your suitcase at the check-in counter is known as an automated baggage tag (ABT). Introduced in the early 1990s, ABTs are made from silicon ...

Checking in your bags will soon be easier than ever. British Airways will be the next major airline to roll out RFID luggage tracking for its passengers. Travelers with a ViewTag can tag their bags ...

A permanent digital luggage tag being tested by British Airways could help make temporary tags obsolete and speed up the check-in process. The 2.95 billion adhesive luggage tags that airlines now ...

Alaska Airlines announced it is introducing E Ink-based electronic bag tags to make the entire baggage checking process at the airport a lot more hassle-free, TechCrunch reported. The airline stated ...

In 1974, two Drexel University students found that an oscillating mirror laser could scan and read barcodes, their solution for more efficient grocery store management. Quick-response codes, or QR ...