Method of enhancing air travel security

• US 20030154087A1
• Filed: 02/08/2002
• Published: 08/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tobias Lewenstein
• Original Assignee: Tobias Lewenstein
• Inventors: Lewenstein, Tobias
• Application Number:
  US10/072,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20030154087A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

Travelers are boarded onto a commercial passenger aircraft at a departure airport and the aircraft then files to an arrival airport with no checked-in luggage on board. Luggage which belongs to the travelers and cannot be carried onto the aircraft is transported by cargo carrier to a location where the luggage can be retrieved by the travelers after they have landed at the arrival airport.

Claims

1. A method of rendering air-travel service comprising the steps of:

conveying travelers by air to a predetermined destination, said travelers having articles of non-carry-on luggage, and the conveying step being performed with an aircraft devoid of non-carry-on luggage belonging to any traveler on said aircraft; and

transporting said articles of non-carry-on luggage to one or more locations where said articles of non-carry-on luggage are retrievable by said travelers following arrival of said travelers at said predetermined destination, the transporting step being performed with one or more conveyances other than said aircraft.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein one of said articles of non-carry-on luggage belongs to one of said travelers and said one article is transported to a predetermined location selected by said one traveler.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said predetermined location is at an airfield.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said predetermined location is at a lodging facility.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said predetermined location is at a residence.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said aircraft is operated by a first party and at least one of said conveyances is operated by a second party.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the steps of collecting one of said articles of non-carry-on luggage from a preselected location prior to the transporting step, and loading said one article of non-carry-on luggage on said one conveyance, the collecting step and the loading step each being performed by said second party.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said preselected location is a at residence.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said preselected location is at a lodging facility.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising the steps of collecting one of said articles of non-carry-on luggage from one of said travelers at an airfield, and loading said article of non-carry-on luggage on said one conveyance, the loading step being performed by said second party.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said conveyances is an aircraft.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said conveyances is a truck.