flights in comment and analysis
Ticket to ride: cheap flights, big money
Comment The dinosaurs of the industry - the national airlines and their agents - were at first left looking ludicrously overpriced and low-tech. But five top US airlines are about to launch an online consortium, Orbitz, that will sell tickets for all them... [29 Mar 2001]
India diary: Day four - First impressions of Bangalore
Comment I've booked all my internal flights through India's Jet Airways - one of the private airlines set up to compete with the national airline Air India - and check-in at Mumbai's domestic airport is not the headache you would imagine, even though the... [01 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.02.05
Round-Up The Round-Up thinks it probably says something along the lines of 'Say it with flights this Valentine's Day.but wasn't about to try wading through the rest of the text. Say it with flights', fine, but also say it in a language spoken by your UK... [04 Feb 2005]
Criminal IT: Why following the pack puts your business at risk
Comment All the things which the American troops expected, the totems of their home lives, were delivered in flight after flight of big silver birds - until the war ended and with it, the flights. Stunned at the sudden cessation of these flights, the... [20 Jul 2005]
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.04.05
Round-Up Gates is ploughing some of his fortune into the manufacturing of the Eclipse 500, a six-seater craft that will top out at 375 knots and is designed for flights of around 300 to 600 miles. The debate which grew out of this news was all about whether... [01 Apr 2005]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment In terms of travel avoidance, in May this amounted to 240 international and 120 domestic flights avoided. And it doesn't account for the lost time waiting in the airport for late flights. Would you rather sweat in a traffic jam, anxious about... [30 Jun 2008]
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]
Best practice: Making life easier for business travellers
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]
Will's Web Watch: The online Valentine
Comment Everything you could wish to buy your loved one - from a dozen red roses to flights, a holiday or maybe something a little saucy for the boudoire - is now available on the internet. It's that time again, a time when people are forced to shell out... [12 Feb 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Been let down by an e-tailer?
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]
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]
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]
Meet the 21st century World Cup photographer (Part II)
Comment The Telegraph's Cheyne won't divulge the exact costs involved but one travel package, which his employer wisely declined, put the cost of flying out one photographer, plus accommodation and internal flights for the duration of the tournament, at... [01 May 2002]
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