SITA to deploy bar code baggage solution at Bangalore International Airport

30 November 2007

Bangalore: Bangalore's new international airport will be the first airport in India to use an integrated automated passenger baggage reconciliation system (PBRS) when it starts operations next year March.

The system will be managed by air transport services major, SITA, which will deploy and manage its own bar code-based solution at the airport, top officials of both companies said.

Under a five-year managed services contract, Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) will make agreed monthly payments to SITA, BIAL's COO, Marcel Hungerbuehler, said.