Industry Facts

- Mishandled baggage is bad for the travelling public – wasted time, wasted money – and terrible for airlines and airports. Lost and mishandled baggage costs the industry billions of dollars a year, and the situation continues to worsen.

 

- IATA’s Baggage Improvement Programme (BIP) proposes solutions that aim to cut baggage mishandling in half by 2012 – generating annual savings to the industry of between US$ 1 and US$ 1.9 billion

 

 

- Nearly two billion bags are shipped out every year by airlines.

 

- RFID supplies a real time and accurate view of the baggage along the transportation, and enormously enhances the ability for baggage sorting, baggage matching and baggage tracking, so many airlines or airports, for example, Hong Kong International Airport, Delta Airlines, etc.