Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport is about to trial new radio frequency identification technology that could track your luggage to its correct destination, reports The Australian Financial Review.
Lost luggage costs airlines abouUS$100 a pop, and it is intensely annoying for travellers. Luggage can be equipped with the microchip, known as RFID, which has a tiny radio antennae that lets baggage systems know exactly where it is.
The Melbourne pilot will hopefully lead eventually to the phasing out of barcode tags, which still allow 20% luggage to be lost.
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