British Airways applies RFID tags on baggage not to lose it

At the end of June, 2019 British Airways became one more large airline which implements technologies of RFID tracking of baggage for the passengers. Travelers with the ViewTag device will be able to mark the bags even before arrival in the airport. And after registration in mobile application of British Airways they will be able to synchronize information on run between baggage and the smartphone.

Passengers of British Airways can order previously luggage RFID labels directly from airline. It is possible to purchase them at the price about £63 (about $80). Reusable labels are supplied with Bluetooth in the mode of energy saving and the E Ink display on which information on your run is displayed. Each label is expected more than 3000 changes of the screen and does not require a recharge. Now labels can be used only on nonstop flights.

British Airways implements technology of RFID tracking of baggage

This step of British Airways reflects a wide trend of the aviation industry which even more often addresses technologies of radio frequency identification. According to SITA, in ten years by June, 2019 the quantity of the lost baggage was reduced by 70%. Nevertheless, tracking of the lost or incorrectly registered baggage manages the aviation industry in the considerable amount — in 2016 these expenses reached about $2 billion.

Delta released RFID labels for baggage in 2016, having allowed passengers to keep track of location of the bag in mobile application of FlyDelta. In the summer of 2018 the International Air Transport Association (IATA) voted for implementation of technologies of RFID tracking in universal scale to the 2020th. By this moment all bags will be traced using luggage labels of RFID. It will allow passengers and the staff of airline to know precisely location of baggage at any moment.^[1]

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