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This week we attended and exhibited at the Aviation Festival Americas in the Miami Beach Convention Center FL. After the World Aviation Festival in Amsterdam and Aviation Festival Asia in Singapore this was the 3rd Aviation Festival conference to attend this year. This conference was especially for the airlines & airports in North and South America and the Caribbean. It was good to see and hear that airports and airlines also in the Americas have an interest and budgets to invest in new technology. Especially to improve the customer experience and reduce the waiting times. Our mobile bagchain solutions help airlines, ground-handlers and airports achieving these goals. It was also good to catch up with our fellow start-ups Clara CCO & Alejandro founder and CEO from Chaise Longue, and Johnny founder & CEO of cielo.ai. We haven’t been able to enjoy much of Miami but it was a good conference with some new leads and prospects.

Especially for the Americas we are attending the Aviation Festival Americas. May 16-17 in the 🌴Miami Beach Convention Center 🌴, Miami FL. We are bringing our mobile remote baggage check-in solutions for airports, airlines and ground handlers to the conference. Powered by our own eco-system bagchain cloud you can even use our baggage check-in solutions at the beach 😎. Anyway if you get tired of shopping, a sunburned or bored at Miami Beach visit us at stand SU-10.

14-16 March we exhibited at the 25^th Passenger Terminal Expo in Amsterdam RAI. It was a very successful Expo. Many airlines and airport attendees visited our bagchain booth.  

There was a lot of interest for our mobile solutions including our mobile iOS app and Bluetooth bag tag printer, mobile bagchain tag kiosk printer and our Business Class Lounge automatic entry solution. Especially now with the passenger traffic picking up, baggage check-in off-site the airport is a very hot item. This can be handled by logistic companies for home pick-up services, or provided by the airport at the airport parking lots, rental car center, bus/train stations or even in the departure lounge. 

With our mobile baggage check-in solutions, airports can better handle the peak of passengers.  

It was crowded today at the elevator at our office. All our mobile kiosks left our lab at the same time. On their way to the Passenger Terminal Expo 2023 for its 25th anniversary. This time the PTE event is in our backyard in the RAI in Amsterdam. We are looking forward seeing you here from March 14-16 at stand 1247. Just look for our orange signage 😉

Aviation Festival Asia is a wrap. Thank you all for stopping by our bagchain pod. It was great to meet new prospects and catch up with colleagues. Also great to meet Sören Destoop from iPort/Res2. iPort is one of the many Departure Control Systems that are now connected to our bagchain cloud. The Asia Aviation market is really booming which is great to see.

Day one of the Aviation Festival Asia at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore. It was a busy day and great venue to meet and catch up in person. Tomorrow Wednesday March 1st, the last day of the convention. If you have time stop by and meet us at our bagchain pod S14 in the start-up zone.

Last week we performed a health and maintenance check at British Airways bagchain tag and Contactless Lounge Entry kiosks at London Heathrow. With the passengers numbers increasing it is good to see that all of our bagchain kiosks are in full use. The bagchain kiosks assist agents in managing the flow of passengers at the security check, connection centers, gates and at the Club Lounges. We also had meetings at BA’s HQ Waterside. Nice to see that landing gear of a former BA 747 having a prominent place at Waterside.

2023 has been all about recovery of our industry. After 2 tough COVID years we see an interest from airlines and airports seeking new solutions to self-service their passengers.
And we are still here to assist with that. Launching new products in 2023 that will increase the customer experience and the operational efficieny. From the entire bagchain team we are wishing everybody a healthy and successful 2023.

This year’s World Aviation Festival is hosted “in our backyard”. We are looking forward discussing our various mobile baggage check-in solutions. You will find us at Hall 10, POD S-135. We will be in, around or under our POD. Or you can schedule a “meet and greet” using the WAF Swapcard.

It is nice to be (very) busy again! Last week our kiosk manufacturer VZ Industries assembled 10 new bagchain breeze kiosks, or as our customer British Airways named them, Contactless Lounge Entry kiosks. The kiosks were shipped directly to our customer in London. 

The bagchain breeze kiosks are fully automated lounge entry access kiosks. Connected to the airlines system and/or loyalty database it validates each customer’s lounge eligibility upon entry.

Installation will take place in the coming weeks at the airport Business Class Lounges at Heathrow T3 and T5.