Member airlines of Lufthansa Group – including Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings – are integrating the Apple AirTag location feature to digitally support baggage tracking.


Member airlines of Lufthansa Group – including Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings – are integrating the Apple AirTag location feature to digitally support baggage tracking.

Air Canada, Avinor, Lufthansa, LAS, Southwest, KEF, United, DOH and more share their insights into the top baggage trends to watch in 2025: robotics, autonomous vehicles, bag tagging, tracking and more.

Singapore Airlines has collaborated with Bagpoint – a Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – to launch a home baggage pickup and check-in service for passengers departing from Schiphol.

In this video interview, Darin Juby, Head of Transformation, Future Travel Experience, and Richard Camman, CEO, BagsID, share an update on the biggest FTE BIWG Proof of Concept to date, taking place in Canada.

In a major announcement at FTE Global 2024, Brussels Airport was unveiled as the latest member of BOOST – a groundbreaking initiative to transform the future of baggage handling through robotics and automation.

SITA – a Strategic Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – is to install state-of-the-art passenger verification and check-in solutions, including common-use self-service bag drops, at PVG.

SITA – a Strategic Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – has installed state-of-the-art Swift Drop Self-Bag Drop units in the new Alaska Airlines location at SFO Harvey Milk Terminal 1.

Air France – a Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – and Alltheway have partnered to extend their baggage drop-off and delivery services to Paris and the Paris region, further enhancing CX.

In this video interview, Schiphol, Avinor, Incheon and nlmtd, share the vision for the groundbreaking new ‘BOOST’ initiative designed to transform the future of baggage handling through robotics and automation.

Alaska Airlines – a Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – has opened a cutting-edge space at SFO’s Harvey Milk Terminal 1. The premium and enhanced CX includes automated bag drop.

Royal Schiphol Group, an Airport Lab Network Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group (BIWG), and innovation consultancy firm nlmtd, have launched BOOST, a groundbreaking initiative designed to transform the future of baggage handling through robotics and automation, at FTE EMEA 2024.

Toronto City Airport has awarded Alstef a contract to upgrade its baggage handling system. The upgrade supports the airport’s initiative to integrate U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance processing.

Aeroporti di Roma – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – has launched ‘Airport in the City’, a new check-in and baggage delivery service at Termini Station in central Rome.

Vanderlande – an Airport Lab Network Partner of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group – has signed contracts to provide end-to-end baggage handling systems for two airports in Vietnam.

BEUMER Group – a Strategic Partner of the FTE BIWG – has been selected as the vendor for a new baggage handling system at Gerald R. Ford International Airport as part of its Terminal Enhancement Project.

Find out more about the next in-person meetings of the FTE Baggage Innovation Working Group (BIWG) and two exclusive baggage tours at Pittsburgh International Airport and Oslo Airport for BIWG members.
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