Sydney Airport to Instate RFID Baggage Tags

AcidAUS writes "Australia's Sydney Airport is investigating high-tech tagging methods for baggage handling, which could greatly reduce the number of bags that go missing each year. Industry experts say that baggage mishandling costs the industry globally $US1.7 billion each year, and that much of this cost is due to failures in the barcode-based tagging system."

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KLM already does at Amsterdam (Schiphol)

[Ixlr8]

KLM and Air France are already running a pilot project (pun not intended) on their service between Paris and Amsterdam. (See for example http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/260 0/1/1/ or go google yourself)

Re:KLM already does at Amsterdam (Schiphol)

[jimicus]

the fact that they can probably claim back everything from the airline anyway

Not true. The Warsaw Convention strongly limits the amount airlines are obliged to pay for lost baggage.

Re:Greasing the public before placement in the ove

[Xemu]

The next step will be RFID in passports, after that RFID tag at birth, under the skin. And while they're at it they might as well take a DNA sample.

That's not a futuristic scenario anymore... Sweden, a leader in this field, now has RFID tags in passports and has been collecting and storing DNA samples of everyone born since 1980. It's true, check it out.