GE helps you face holiday travels with a holiday smile

The holidays are coming to full steam like grandma’s peppermint tea, and for most, that means holiday travel. However, instead of sugarplum fairies, this dreaded holiday tradition often involves visions of endless lines, overcrowded terminals, and that guy in 6C who will not stop snoring.

As many gear up for an action-packed day or two of travel, we at GE Reports wanted to share some ways that GE technologies are helping to make your travels a little bit safer and easier this holiday season.

Hate the thought of your checked luggage undergoing hand inspection?
You’ll be happy to hear that GE Security’s CTX series explosives detection systems are in use at more than 200 airports around the world and offer some pretty amazing explosives detection capabilities. How does this help you? Aside from keeping baggage safe, the CTX series reduces the number of false alarm scans and in turn, decreases in the number of bags that airport security personnel need to inspect by hand. Added bonus – fewer bags may miss their flights this holiday travel season.

Wary of thunderstorms?
GE Digital Energy products help protect the airports from damage during power system failures by helping to ensure uninterrupted power. Runway lighting systems, radar, terminal operations will continue to run even if the power fails.

Wonder if your airplane is in the best shape?
Similar to healthcare technology, GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies offers X-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), and other technologies to collect key flight information and inspect the full aircraft and engines.

Now what type of holiday post would this be without some sort of gift-giving? That said, the folks over at GE Security have put together a great set of travel tips for packing luggage this holiday season.

* More about how GE technologies are helping to make your travels safer this holiday season.