Journal
Notes from the terminal floor
Working notes on airport technology, passenger processing and baggage operations.
From movement to invoice
An airport's revenue is a description of its operation. The two should not be assembled separately.
ReadWhere resource conflicts come from
Most delays blamed on resources begin as a schedule change that nobody published.
Reading a bag tag from belt to container
Every scan is a state change, and every state change is the answer to a question the ramp is about to ask.
The last hour before departure
Between the reservation and the aircraft door there is a gap. Departure control is the system that closes it.
What common use really changes at the counter
Shared positions look like a hardware saving. The bigger change is who owns the counter, the training and the reporting.
An Iranian passenger processing system goes live at Imam Khomeini Airport
State broadcaster IRIB reports on the domestically built check-in and departure system now running in place of a foreign platform at IKIA.