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News United Airlines has once again handed out ridiculously cheap flights to lucky customers after screwing up its online systems for the third time in just over a year. The airline accidentally offered $5 return tickets on many internal flights to...
[15 May 2002]
News British Airways (BA) is to scrap traditional check-in desks for passengers on UK domestic flights from the end of next month as part of its continued investment in automated check-in systems. From April 25, the only way for passengers on internal...
[21 Mar 2006]
News US carrier, Delta Air Lines is expanding its online booking service to cover international flights. Having covered domestic flights since 1996, Delta's Internet booking system will now offer US-based customers the ability to buy tickets to the 56...
[02 Mar 1999]
News The Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) is looking to add real-time information on all flights taking off and landing in the UK to its online public transport and road travel portal. The TransportDirect website currently provides live travel...
[19 Aug 2005]
Photo Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. Baggage is loaded on and off flights in 'tins'. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned...
[14 Feb 2008]
News UK pop star Bob Geldof is setting up an online flight booking service that he claims will offer more flights from the UK than any other Web site. Consumers will be able to search for flights, book and pay online.
[05 Oct 1998]
News The two major Canadian airlines have become the latest in a line of operators to cancel flights over the millennium period. According to a statement from Air Canada "most Air Canada flights between 6:00pm Friday 31st December 1999 and noon Saturday...
[21 Sep 1999]
News In the latest example of a pricing blunder to hit the web, Thai Airways has been practically giving away first class flights from London to Bangkok, asking that customers only pay the taxes. One disgruntled Thai Airways customer, silicon.com reader...
[25 Apr 2003]
News In-flight broadband is coming soon for travellers on some American Airlines and Virgin America flights. Aircell, a company that sells air-to-ground telecommunications equipment to airlines, said this week that its in-flight broadband system will be...
[13 Mar 2008]
News Emirates has become the latest airline to announce it will be allowing travellers to use their mobile phones during flights. Emirates will be able to control the system to limit the annoyance factor of mobile addicts, and will be able to silence...
[09 Nov 2006]
whitepaper Responding to record numbers of delayed and cancelled flights, the top U.S.airlines have decided to try to fix the clunky links between their individual electronic-ticketing systems in an effort to make it easier for stranded passengers who don't...
[24 Feb 2004]
News Flight attendants may soon be outfitted with wireless devices that would be used to alert pilots of attempted hijackings or other security threats to flights. Instead, the proposal merely says passenger flights must have an "approved means" by...
[22 Sep 2005]
News Last week silicon.com reported on a 'too good to be true' online offer from Thai Airways which appeared to be giving away free flights from London to Bangkok. Similarly, while we're told not to believe everything we read in the papers, once silicon...
[02 May 2003]
News Along with letting its four million users book flights, holidays and hotels, Amazon.co.uk will provide links to its own travel related content such as travel guides, digital cameras and language software.
[27 Nov 2001]
News Around 87 per cent of flights (both arrivals and departures) are due to run today, with a similar proportion operating tomorrow. So far 299 flights have been cancelled due to the problems which first emerged on Thursday when a number of issues...
[31 Mar 2008]
News Flights out of the UK were held on the ground after the computer problem struck at around 18:30(GMT). According to a spokesman from NATS the problem was resolved by 19:03(GMT) and a spokeswoman for British Airports Authority told silicon.com the...
[17 Feb 2005]
News BT has hit back at claims that delays and backlogs have turned its free flight offer for new broadband customers a fiasco, saying that most customers have received their flights and 5,000 vouchers remain unclaimed.
[05 Oct 2004]
Photo silicon.com has been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at BAA's brand new Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow ahead of its official opening for British Airways (BA) flights on 27 March. There is also a section for flight crew where they can check...
[12 Feb 2008]
News The OFT is concerned that airline contracts do not guarantee financial compensation to customers whose flights are rescheduled. Despite the ongoing investigation, many airlines are evaluating sophisticated information systems so they can cancel...
[28 Jun 1999]
News Software crash took three and a quarter hours to fix but the resulting backlog of flights took days to sort out. With the system down, operators had to revert to pen and paper to log flights manually.
[22 Jun 2000]
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