New airline bag tags that can be programmed with a mobile phone could make those sticky strips of paper a thing of the past — and maybe even prevent a painful separation between you and your bag. Airlines around the globe are keen to dispense with the bar-coded thermal paper tags they print by the billions and loop onto your luggage.
That adhesive paper is expensive, and the codes don’t keep millions of bags from being lost each year. Worldwide, about 1% of luggage was mishandled last year, costing an estimated $2.6 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association.
“It’s painful [for airlines] in so many ways,” says Richard Wartham, president and chief executive officer of Vanguard ID Systems, a suburban Philadelphia company that makes a radio-frequency identification bag tag. “It’s 1970 technology, you know? But because it’s just such a huge installed base, it’s hard for them to change on a dime.” Read more…
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