flights peter cochrane in comment and analysis

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment I was surprised when these offending objects went undetected on international and internal flights. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. [29 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment Doing a band-playing, big-bang move of so many flights and services to the new terminal was a fool-hardy move in the first place - they should have trickled stuff into it over six months. It's now late Saturday and there are still problems... [03 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment So long as the price of flights doesn't increase substantially, I think it's a worthwhile investment! ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking... [27 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?

Comment Then we had the story about how Air France was putting back and extending a trial to allow use of mobiles on flights. There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning... [18 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich

Comment The City of Norwich is located in the northeastern corner of East Anglia and is pretty well isolated by a dire road network, poor rail services and a dinky regional airport providing a few business flights. [30 Aug 2006]

30 tips for better business travel

Comment I find that a pair of Bose Quietcomfort headphones and two little bottles of red wine usually do the trick for long flights! Peter Cochrane, blogger and tech nomad, silicon.com Here are some suggestions from silicon.com staff and our favourite... [19 Jun 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security and 'toilet paper'

Comment Written in Porto during a frantic series of flights transiting Portugal, the UK and the US. Despatched from Philadelphia on a free wi-fi service provided by a conference organiser Now and again you might spot some vagrant rummaging around in a... [28 Apr 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains

Comment Customer experience one: "I would agree that I want my journey through the airport to be as easy as possible but I have to tell you that on my last three flights the new self-service check-in systems caused me nothing but stress and frustration. [24 Apr 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember when flying was fun?

Comment There have also been various experiments in the US with hand and thumb print readers so that people can pass quickly through security on the basis of a continual vetting of their security status but only for internal flights. [27 Mar 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security

Comment Seems to me all means of ignition should be banned on all flights if we are really serious about aircraft safety. Along with an aircraft full of people at Schipol, I have just stowed my luggage in the overhead, got seated and settled in, ready to... [01 Dec 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Information the way it should be

Comment So here I am eating lunch and able to see all approaching and leaving flights. Written from Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts Despite my 30 years of travel and work in the US, this place never ceases to amaze me. [12 Sep 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: 7/7 shows we need more networks

Comment I was able to get through, give all my family the reassurance they craved, and camp out for a week in a Seattle hotel until flights back to the UK resumed. Editor's note: This blog was written on 7/7/05 at 18:00(BST) but is only being posted now... [08 Jul 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile myth busting

Comment Without exception, mobile phones must be turned off during airplane flights. Peter Cochrane takes on the top myths about mobile technology. Or why you can't use it in hospitals and on airplanes? It is hard to recall a technology that has been so... [12 Aug 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The oil crisis of 2003

Comment Goodbye cheap and abundant flights, hello higher petrol/gas prices. Questions and answers from Peter Cochrane. Will 2003 be referred to in 50 years as the Oil Peak? It is the 1 January 2003 and I am reflecting on the events of the past year and... [09 Jan 2003]

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