Air France launched a trial with RFID tags to label and track passenger baggage on flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol.KLM joins the trial on July 10 at two baggage drop-off points in Schiphol's Departure Hall 2. The tags will be used for all baggage dropped at those points regardless of destination. Later this year, all drop-off points in DH2 will be equipped to handle RFID tags. KLM developed RFID together with Schiphol, which is responsible for facilitation.

THE nation's biggest airport is lobbying Canberra to widen the range of duty free goods available to Australians as they return from overseas.

Qantas has denied giving a rugby league star preferential treatment by allowing him to travel after he joked that a Muslim teammate had bombs strapped to him.

All personnel of Shanghai Airlines Co., Ltd and its board will ensure the realness, accuracy and integrity of this announcement contents, and take full responsibility towards the artificial records, misleading statements and important omissions of the announcement.

Offering guests easy airline check-in service, Marriott International, Inc. is targeting September for the service to be offered at every US and Canadian hotel, more than 400 in total. The conveniently located lobby computer stations will serve one purpose -- for guests to check-in to their flights and print their boarding passes quickly. (6/28/2006)

The Boeing Company named Jim Schlueter vice president of Communications for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, reporting to Alan Mulally, Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, and Tom Downey, Boeing vice president of corporate communications.

Sharjah's Information Systems Associates (ISA), a joint venture of low-fares airline Air Arabia LLC and John Keells Holdings (JKH), has developed a new reservation system AccelAero for low cost airlines that provides multi-selling channels through the Internet, travel agencies and call centres. (6/26/2006)

US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced that he will resign his position effective July 7.Mineta, who is 74, informed President Bush in a letter dated July 20, citing a desire "to move on to other challenges." The Bush Administration announced the decision Friday. It has not nominated a successor. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Mineta made the decision on his own. "He was not being pushed out," Snow said during a press conference.

Airframer outlines plans for 'Enhanced' model and targets 4-5% efficiency gain

LAN Argentina will begin operating the Miami-Buenos Aires route on August 15, 2006, with a non-stop flight that departs from Ministro Pistarini de Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires at 10:15 p.m. and arrives at Miami International Airport at 6:05 a.m. the following morning. The flight will in turn depart Miami at 9:00 p.m. and arrive in Buenos Aires at 6:40 a.m. the following morning.