Bangalore's New International Airport Deploying SITA's Baggage Reconciliation System

The new Bangalore International Airport that is to open next March is deploying SITA's integrated passenger-baggage reconciliation system - a first for India.

SITA's end-to-end system combines bar codes, a WLAN (wireless local area network), and redundant IP (Internet protocol)-based global connectivity to ensure delivery reliability.

The Bangalore system is comprised of SITA's BagManager and BagMessage components.

BagManager interfaces with an airport's check-in and baggage sorting systems, and also integrates with its flight information systems for updates on aircraft loading.  In addition, it can be linked to an airport's security systems to verify that bags have been screened for explosives or other threats, and it reconciles passengers with their bags to conform with ICAO's Annex 17-security requirement prohibiting the carriage of accompanied baggage.

BagMessage ensures the latest information about passenger bags is available whenever and wherever needed.

Almost all airlines using Bangalore are also customers of SITA's WorldTracer, which along with IATA, provides a single shared database of lost and mishandled bags for some 400 airlines and other users.  12-03-2007.

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