What if tiny radio waves from your luggage could communicate its location to baggage handlers? Airlines could use that technology to track your bags and prevent them from getting lost or misdirected.

RFID promises to be a simple solution for baggage handling, but is technology too expensive for cash-strapped airlines to integrate? For three days last Christmas week, Janet Suckling haunted the ...

Delta Air Lines plans to soon start using baggage tags with RFID technology to track bags more efficiently and accurately. The idea is to help avoid misdirected bags and give customers a more accurate ...

The International Air Transport Association has committed to developing a global plan to standardize and mandate RFID inlays in luggage tags, citing a similar tracking program adopted by Delta ...

In an effort to better track the millions of bags it handles each year, Delta has announced it will replace its current barcode tracking system with a more modern (and much more accurate) Radio ...

Delta Airlines is trying to prevent lost luggage by using technology to track bags from start to finish. Radio frequency identification, or RFID, will replace the bar code scanning done by hand, which ...

Delta Air Lines says it will use radio frequency identification technology to end the problem of lost luggage for its customers and save itself up to $100 million annually. The company announced that ...

JetBlue wants to be the first airline to track passenger baggage across its network using a computer chip embedded in the bag tag. "I want to be the worldwide launch customer" for radio frequency ...

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. said today it will use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track luggage throughout its U.S. network. The decision is aimed at helping the airline ...