{"id":1416,"date":"2013-08-07T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-12-03T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:20:54","slug":"right-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/2013\/08\/07\/right-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Right on Track!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/Passenger_Terminal_World-Interview.pdf\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1456\" alt=\"Read the full article here\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/PTW-Interview-image-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read the full article here<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Chris Beling, commercial director, Zafire, discusses product developments and the company\u2019s future plans.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What did you launch at Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have the latest release of <a title=\"FirstBag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/aviation-products\/firstbag\/\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"26504a57-f20c-4e68-ae2d-51f4ae951812\">FirstBag<\/span><\/a> being deployed across our network. In fact, one of our clients recently reported a <strong>75% reduction in mishandled bags as a direct result of using the product<\/strong>. <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"a238226f-95cc-4edb-8945-1a1155f29606\">FirstBag<\/span> Version 4 has gone live in Australia and has a number of revolutionary new features. We\u2019re focusing on <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"a7c73c2a-4239-4eb6-89d5-1497260a4550\">interline bag improvement<\/span>, vehicle tracking and process improvements, so there is a lot going on in the bag world.<\/p>\n<p>We also launched the <a title=\"iFirstBag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/aviation-products\/ifirstbag\/\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"149a4852-541f-4bad-b683-f0136ff7a237\">iFirstBag<\/span> system<\/a>, which is a tracking device that links in to <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"11a84e25-2d6b-45e4-b46b-ea200e456f2f\">FirstBag<\/span>. It is a little black box that passengers can put into their bag and enables them to track their bag anywhere in the world. It is very new technology using the triangulation of GSM rather than GPS signals. In the world of free information, enabling passengers to have some idea about where their bags <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"6d5b2477-0fdd-45b8-a70d-8a1ee99e73f5\">are provides<\/span> them with comfort and some control. It is part of our <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"8205e4c2-f76a-4e83-bb2c-4b66698d6c1e\">longer<\/span>-term plan aimed at giving the passenger much more information about their bags \u2013 when they\u2019ve been checked in, when they\u2019ve been loaded &#8211; and giving them that whole tracking experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/Passenger_Terminal_World-Interview.pdf\">Read the full interview here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Beling, commercial director, Zafire, discusses product developments and the company\u2019s future plans. What did you launch at Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE)? We have the latest release of FirstBag being deployed across our network. In fact, one of our clients recently reported a 75% reduction in mishandled bags as a direct result of using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zafire-aviation-news","tag-passenger-terminal-expo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zafire.com\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}