Weekly roundup Friday 31 December 2010
Good morning A short newsletter this week, for obvious festive reasons. But it is worthy to note that this last year has again been a prolific one, with newsletters almost every week, 233 blog entries, …
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Weekly roundup Friday 24 December 2010
Good morning 'Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and all through the house, The only creature stirring, was my computer mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes …
Airbus Fires the First Shot in the New 737/A320 War
There’s been a big story inside me for a year or more that I’ve occasionally lightly commented on, but never fully described. Until now. On 1 December Airbus made an innocent enough seeming announcement – …
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The Limitations of the TSA – Protecting Yesterday’s Targets Against Yesterday’s Threats
Okay, so an article headed ‘The Limitations of the TSA’ might seem to lack anything original or creative, but I hope when you read the full article on the website, you’ll find it to actually …
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An Extraordinary Indictment of Boeing’s Trouble-ridden 787
Boeing’s 787 is now almost three years behind schedule, and any day now Boeing is expected to announce yet another delay of somewhere between 3 – 6 months to the program. Some analysts feel that …
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Airport Delays at Heathrow – Who is to Blame?
To date, most people – and most legislators – tend to focus on the airlines when delays occur, and for sure, airlines vary in their degree of adequate response to disruptions to their service. For …
Weekly roundup Friday 17 December 2010
Good morning It is great to be home again, and it is great to be warm once more. The cold snap which engulfed Europe has of course extended to the US as well, with predictable …
Airline Roundup Friday 17 December 2010
November results are in for most of the US carriers, with results generally positive. The 'new' United, complete with Continental now merged, reported a 2.7% growth in revenue passenger miles, with a lesser 1.7% growth …
Why We Need Airport Passenger Profiling
Profiling is common (and indeed common sense), accepted, and a positive part of our daily lives. People and businesses profile us and base their interactions with us on the profiles they perceive. We in turn …
Salk’s International Airport Transit Guide – Now an Excellent iPhone App
I’ve long been a fan of Ron Salk’s excellent little reference book, the International Airport Transit Guide – click the link to see a review I wrote back in 2005. Since the 2005 review, the …
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A New Approach to Retail Shopping Offers Savings for Us but Problems for Retailers
A quiet revolution has been brewing, and the implications are as exciting and scary for us as shoppers as they are for the traditional bricks and mortars retailers. There are three parts to this revolution. …
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How to Smuggle Guns and Bombs past an Airport Whole Body Imaging Scanner
Look at the four airport x-ray scanner images of a person’s body on the left. One of them has 12 oz of plastic explosive hidden in the middle of the image – can you tell …
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