W.R.A.I.T.H

What a ridiculous statement. If you hate your paying customers, who ultimately pay your wages, so much, maybe you are in the wrong job. No wonder aviation has become so awful, with employees with attitudes like yours. Jeez, if you don't like it do something else, don't make us all suffer.

Tagging is a complete non starter. As a frequent flyer I wouldn't put up with it. If it became compulsory, well, oops mine might fail or get lost down the toilet..accidentally of course!

Some people may wish to sleepwalk into an orwellian future, but I don't.

I think some of us need a reality check. Electronically tagging fare paying passengers is simply not going to happen, it may seem a good idea to a minority in the travel business but it's completely unworkable and would certainly be subject to many legal challenges.

At the end of the day it's up to the airport authorities (and airlines) to get people to their gate on time and if they want to increase the fluidity of passengers through the airport towards the gate they should invest any additional resources in improving the security infrastructures which, in Britain, seem to take an eternity to pass through.

In other words SXB, anyone who disagrees with your opinion is wrong? ;) [Intended humorously, not aggressively.]

But let's be absolutely clear about something: It's the passenger's responsibility to be at their gate on time - not the airport's, not the airline's, not the government's and not the teachers'...

I share current frustrations about the time taken by formalities but this has little to do with pax-tagging. These days, too many SLF can't even get the 'SL' bit right. The more that some travellers demonstrate the wit and intelligence of packaged freight, the more we'll all be so treated.

I disagree Crepello :), there are a number of, necessary, obstacles to be negotiated once a passenger has checked in. In British airports the most time consuming one is the security check, my point being that if extra resources are available for getting passengers to their gate on time these resources should be used for the security check as the vast majority of passengers late for gate arrival seem to be waiting in the security queue.

My comments about electronically tagging passengers are realistic, it isn't going to happen.

Also, the airport authorities do bear most of the responsibility for delivering a passenger to the gate, after all they run the airport, the security and the information systems which guide the passengers. There are some clueless idiots that buy airline tickets and spend their time sat in the bar when their flight is due but they are a minority.

Hold on HOLD ON !

Every passenger has to have a boarding card/pass/whatever. True ?

Scrap em. Replace them with a plastic gizmo--how big ?--mobile phone ?--20 pack of cigarettes ?---that has to be swiped by passenger to access waiting area, departure gate, aircraft entrance door-- and at that point removed from them. How many passengers would know or care that this bulky replacement for a simple slip of paper was in fact a tag ?

QED:ok:

Certainly, turning the Boarding Pass into an RFID boarding pass is thelogical way to go because it is not the person that is being tagged. At present, you need to keep your boarding pass with you or you don't board. If it had an RFID inside it, I woul dnot care.