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"I'm on the plane" - calling and texting in the air
The massed switching on of mobile phones as the plane lands may soon be a thing of the past. Travellers on Vodafone and Orange mobiles will be able to use them on aircraft within weeks, according to this article today. O2 and T-Mobile are already using...
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18 Jun 2009 10:04
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25 years of Virgin Atlantic
Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group is doing a guest editor stint today at ICIS' sister publication Flight, and he tells us that Virgin Atlantic's popular 25th anniversary ad is going to make a return to UK TV screens this week. The retrospective...
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8 Jun 2009 17:43
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No ashtray, no flight
A story in today's Times amusingly titled " No smoke without ire ," about a flight from Heathrow delayed in take-off due to a missing ashtray, reminded me of my own infuriating " Diary of a Flight to Amsterdam ." I bet the "unspecified...
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20 May 2009 18:06
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Business travel - just when it couldn't get any worse
Just when it looked like a bad year for business travel couldn't get any worse, along comes swine flu, and even the most determined of travellers is going to think again. Chemical conference and exhibition organisers must be quaking in their shoes...
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28 Apr 2009 14:03
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Fuel hedging a disaster for Air France-KLM
The airline Air France-KLM blamed fuel hedging for its heavy third-quarter losses, and announced that it would be scrapping the disastrous strategy in 2009. While crude oil prices fell from the $140s/barrel to $47/barrel, the airline's fuel hedging...
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14 Feb 2009 18:31
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