An airline may score very high on the passenger’s evaluation in terms of inflight service, pretty airhostesses, inflight entertainment systems, timely arrivals, punctual departures and courtesy at check-in counters. However, the same satisfaction levels may not exist, when it comes to passenger baggage handling. In fact! lost baggages and delayed baggage arrivals and other baggage problems take up a large chunk of an airline’s “headache list”.

Instead of the ordinary bar coded stick-on labels, we can use RFID inlay stick-on labels. These have a printed portion, as well an RFID tag inlay, which can be either a read only or a WORM (write once read many) type. This tag can be read by RFID readers mounted at various locations on the conveyor belts.

1. IATA may make it mandatory for all airlines/airports to install RFID reader systems & tags by a certain date.
    
2. The government & security agencies may also mandate that all airports install this kind of system.
    
3. The newer airlines or airports who are upgrading to newer control & automation systems may provide facilities for having both barcode as well as RFID tag identification systems for baggage handling.