Abstract:
The airline management system in Pakistan is vulnerable in the face of unexpected and erroneous situations. It has been seen that the biggest problem that airlines face today is the accurate tracking of passengers and luggage on the airports therefore a solution to this problem has become necessary considering the enhancements in the IT field.
The solution proposed provides a complete automation of the airline management system for the operational cycle of a passenger beginning from scheduling and booking a flight to reaching the correct destination with his luggage. This solution has integrated web services with the RFID technology for locating items and passengers on the airport.
RFID stands for Radio-Frequency Identification. It is the process of putting “tags” on objects so that they can be identified and tracked automatically through the RFID Equipment (antennas and readers) communicating and transferring data to the host computers. The data on the tag is a unique identification number which can be customized as per the requirements of the system. The tags are read by RFID readers when they enter their vicinity and the data is then transferred to the databases in the host computers for further processing [1].
The system designed consists of two modules. The first provides an airline management web-service allowing passengers to book flights, search for schedules, track their luggage location and purchase an e-ticket from the website. The second module caters to the security and reliability issues on the airport; tracking of luggage and passengers through RFIDs. Thus the solution will increase the efficiency of the airline management system in real time.
