Unisys confirms Qantas baggage systems win

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So we now know who's running the system, so there's a good chance NGCI has some reliability.

Unisys confirms Qantas baggage systems win
Written by Renai LeMay on Monday, October 25, 2010 8:59

IT services giant Unisys has confirmed it has won a lengthy deal to provide new baggage tracking systems for Qantas, after the pair’s relationship in a trial system was outed by the airline in July.

The system is part of what Qantas is calling its ‘Next-Generation’ check-in platform, made up of technology from 15 different vendors and involving the use of radio frequency identification tagging – RFID chips. Globally, airlines have long signalled the use of the chips attached to luggage as being the nirvana of baggage tracking, as the chips themselves can easily broadcast origin and destination information.

Under Unisys’ four-year deal with Qantas – revealed in a statement this morning – the IT services company will provide systems integration, implementation and rollout services to Qantas to support the Baggage Reconciliation System, as well as application hosting and support at Unisys’ Sydney datacentre.