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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]
Comment It seems that the big-bang introduction of so many flights at once was too much for the new terminal to take. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last week - and my...
[16 Apr 2008]
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]
Round-Up BAA, the owner of Heathrow, said yesterday there was a "minor problem with log-ons of the baggage system which affected the baggage on some outgoing flights". BA, the sole airline using Terminal 5, yesterday had to cancel flights due to the baggage...
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment So long as the price of flights doesn't increase substantially, I think it's a worthwhile investment! With the Easter weekend now a distant memory and all the chocolate eggs polished off, silicon.com readers have been hitting their keyboards to...
[27 Mar 2008]
AS Analysis The other airline CIO, at 25 on the list, is Bill Maguire at Virgin America, the Branson-backed US domestic low-cost airline start-up, which made its maiden customer flights this summer. In the past, few figures from user organisations have secured...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Then we had the story about how Air France was putting back and extending a trial to allow use of mobiles on flights. Years ago, when I used to call someone for the first time from silicon.com and had to explain what we do, I described the...
[18 Apr 2007]
Comment First - flights. It's been one month since Mike Barrett left his cushy executive job to become a self-employed consultant. So how's it going? And what's he learning? Here's his update. What's it like stepping from the cosseted corporate world to...
[20 Mar 2007]
Round-Up Meanwhile across town, Virgin became part of cable TV uber-chimera NTL:Telewest to offer a wide range of services from mobile phones to internet, via pay-TV (transatlantic flights, cola flavoured drinks and trains - though the less said about the...
[02 Mar 2007]
Round-Up When boarding most commercial flights, passengers are still generally told to turn off all mobile phones, including those with 'flight safe modes'. Hats off to Charles Dunstone and the good people at Carphone Warehouse who yesterday dropped a...
[19 Jan 2007]
Leader The flight crew can switch off the talk functionality on night flights and will tell passengers to keep their mobiles on silent. silicon.com has been writing stories about mobile connectivity on planes for some years - as far back as 2004, to be...
[09 Nov 2006]
Round-Up The latest twist in this saga saw Virgin Atlantic this week ban passengers from using Apple and Dell laptops on flights over fears batteries could potentially overheat and spark fires in extreme cases.
[22 Sep 2006]
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]
Comment No flights of fancy by the IT department to waste the seller's time and deals should be more numerous but, of course, deals will also be smaller. IT vendors hoping to target small organisations can't treat them like large enterprises.
[03 Jul 2006]
Comment It is hard enough booking flights, organising taxis and arriving at a crucial meeting without being considerably flustered. These days almost every organisation includes some mobile workers. Stewart Baines offers advice on what the IT department...
[14 Jun 2006]
Round-Up And you thought it was just those long-haul flights that could prove treacherous (or at least that's the Round-Up's excuse for downing medicinal quantities of red wine on any flight). How are you feeling dear reader?
[12 May 2006]
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]
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]
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]
Comment Those of us who have regularly shopped online for some time now will have our favourite sites - be it a first port of call when booking flights or hotels, a first choice for CDs or DVDs, a specialist clothes store or other niche site (not...
[08 Mar 2006]
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