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Humans Get Bigger, Plane Space Gets Smaller
By: Adrian | September 13, 2009 – 11:01 am | No Comment
Humans Get Bigger, Plane Space Gets Smaller

Being small, I don’t really have problems with seats in planes. With short legs nearly every plane is reasonably comfortable for me but then, I am not like most people.

Over the last fifty years or so people have grown. Not just in height but by girth as well. But in most cases, airline seats haven’t.

More Airline Charges
By: Adrian | September 4, 2009 – 12:59 pm | No Comment
More Airline Charges

Wallow in nostalgia for a moment.

Do you remember when flying was fun and an adventure?

No, neither do I. It has always been a chore. Just as one thing improves flying, online check-in for example, something comes up to make it more difficult.

An Update on Mexican Holidays
By: Adrian | April 29, 2009 – 6:15 am | No Comment
An Update on Mexican Holidays

The outbreak of a flu virus in Mexico has prompted some of the strangest media coverage. On the one hand, there have been the stories of returning holidaymakers suffering from flu like symptoms and the spread of the virus to other countries and on the other, plaintive stories of people who have had their holiday [...]

British Airways and Concorde
By: Adrian | April 9, 2009 – 5:40 am | No Comment
British Airways and Concorde

What a difference a couple of days make.Earlier this week I was congratulating BA on the calm, understated pleasant flight I had.Yesterday The Times reported that BA was considering selling the Concorde it has at Heathrow to a group of investors in Dubai where it will be grouped with the QE2 and marketed as [...]

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British Airways: Fit for Purpose
By: Adrian | April 5, 2009 – 9:07 am | No Comment
British Airways: Fit for Purpose

Last week I flew on BA for the first time in about six months. In that time BA has faced all the problems that airlines have had; increasing fuel prices and then hedging fuel at high prices or at high insurance rates, lower demand from its premium paying passengers and the difficulties of merging with [...]

M.P.’s, Terminal 5 and “national embarrassment”
By: Adrian | November 3, 2008 – 8:16 am | One Comment
M.P.’s, Terminal 5 and “national embarrassment”

Cast you minds back. To 6 months ago. When Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opened and there were all those problems. Seems a long time ago since then we have reported that. Like all new openings, there were teething problems and those may have been worse than elsewhere or may have been overblown by the media. Now [...]