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Delta investing in baggage finder.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 16-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 825 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Delta Air Lines will invest up to $25 million in a new system to track lost luggage using radio frequencies, becoming the first airline to roll out technology nationwide as others in the industry also explore such techniques to reduce costs, improve security and reduce traveler aggravation over lost baggage.

Delta loses less than 1 million of the 80 million pieces of luggage it transports annually, but locating those bags and returning them to their owners costs the company $100 million annually, amine spokesperson Reid Davis said. By 2007, Delta plans to embed a Radio Frequency Identification code in a tag on every, bag it flies within the United States so fewer bags are lost and those that are mishandled can be...

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