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."

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/ [rfidjournal.com] or go google yourself)

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.

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 [wikipedia.org] strongly limits the amount airlines are obliged to pay for lost baggage.