Airbus Unveils an Intelligent Bag that Can Travel Alone
Airbus’s new chief innovations officer, Yann Barbaux, unveils the new Bag2Go concept, which uses RFID technology to track luggage at all stages of a journey. [Photo: Airbus]
Airbus’s new chief innovations officer, Yann Barbaux, unveils the new Bag2Go concept, which uses RFID technology to track luggage at all stages of a journey. [Photo: Airbus]

Airbus has taken steps to resolve what remains the bane of air travelers’ lives: lost baggage, which it estimates is a $2.6 billion problem annually. Better still, its new Bag2Go program raises the possibility of passengers being able to let their bags travel independently and arrive in a timely way at their final destination. Through a partnership with German baggage maker Rimowa and communications group T-Mobile, the airframer has tapped radio frequency identification technology to create a so-called intelligent suitcase that can be dispatched and tracked from the passenger’s smartphone.