Aviation’s COVID-19 “mad cow burger” problem
In 1990, as years of concern about mad cow disease in the UK reached critical mass, the country’s agriculture minister fed his four-year-old... Continue Reading
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Why key upgrades hang in the balance for New York City Subway
The last time I wrote about the state of the New York City Subway in 2015, things were not going all that well. Overcrowding was burdening t... Continue Reading
The Eurotunnel’s Channel Tunnel car shuttle shines during COVID
Travel between Europe and the UK has changed to an almost unrecognisable extent during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the UK’s unilateral two-w... Continue Reading
Channel ferry COVID protocols reassuring for passengers
With Europe heading back into strict COVID-19 lockdowns, travel has been reduced to the essentials. For an essential, last-minute trip from ... Continue Reading
A new socially distanced airport experiment comes to Denver
In mid-September, Denver International Airport (DEN) introduced a program called VeriFLY in order to help calm passengers’ anxieties about s... Continue Reading
Flying internationally from Mexico during COVID
On a Monday afternoon at Cancun International Airport (CUN), heavy cumulus clouds punctuated the sky as Tropical Storm Gamma churned slowly ... Continue Reading
Flying internationally to Mexico during COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the airline industry. While some countries are allowing visitors once again, quarantine measures have s... Continue Reading
Hygiene expectations post-COVID: a generation of Naomi Campbells?
“I love travelling.” Naomi Campbell proclaimed aboard a Qatar Airways Airbus A380 in Nice during July of 2019, as she proceeded to don prote... Continue Reading
What passenger experience future for Airbus hydrogen aircraft?
Airbus has chosen its preferred technology for the next generation of aircraft power: hydrogen. With the release of three concepts in the re... Continue Reading
Will COVID-19 drive Basic Business class segmented fares?
In financial terms, the seats on a flight are the most distressed of inventories: once the aircraft doors shut, they have hit a hard “use by... Continue Reading
Corporate travel and physical distancing: a duty of care?
After past external shocks that have affected the airline industry, corporate travel has usually been among the very first sectors to reboun... Continue Reading
Aviation’s square root-shaped four-stage COVID-19 recovery process
Talking with people throughout the aviation industry, the general consensus is that the initial phases of the impact of COVID-19 on airlines... Continue Reading
From Broken Hill to Sydney, 14 outback hours by train
When people think about long-distance rail journeys in Australia, the ones that come to mind are the Ghan, the Indian Pacific: the continent... Continue Reading
Goodbye to British Airways’ baby bus, the all-premium A318
Originally used as flight numbers for the legendary Concorde, BA1 and BA2 were more recently associated with the British Airways Club World ... Continue Reading
Let’s evolve airport lounge thinking from the “business center”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way our world works — and the world of work — in myriad different ways, including for people with the ... Continue Reading
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