{"id":140,"date":"2006-08-11T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2006\/08\/11\/airline-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T18:35:13","slug":"airline-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/08\/airline-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the after\u00admath of the latest round of air travel restric\u00adtions, it seems to me there will be quite a few rami\u00adfic\u00ada\u00adtions for the travel industry, if these restric\u00adtions stay in place for any length of time. Here are some of the ones I see, in no par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar&nbsp;order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-ser\u00advice air\u00adlines will have a fight\u00ading chance again, as long as they actu\u00adally provide the amen\u00adit\u00adies that used to be expec\u00adted for travel, such as food, drink (even if non-alco\u00adhol\u00adic), pil\u00adlows, blankets, in-flight video sys\u00adtems, and magazines.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Flights will be full of tetchy bored people whose elec\u00adtron\u00adic toys were taken away from them curs\u00ading the noisy bored chil\u00addren whose toys were taken away from&nbsp;them.<\/li>\n<li>Boe\u00ading\u2019s decision to cre\u00adate a plane for point-to-point travel rather than hub and spoke looks like the right one. Flights from Heath\u00adrow and Gatwick (the big air\u00adports) were the tar\u00adget points rather than those from smal\u00adler air\u00adports; flights from smal\u00adler air\u00adports may be used as a way to get mater\u00adi\u00adals onto oth\u00ader flights (if there are no secur\u00adity checks between land\u00ading from one flight and get\u00adting on the next) but are less likely to be tar\u00adgets them\u00adselves. Tak\u00ading flights from small air\u00adport to small air\u00adport will also avoid the longer secur\u00adity-check\u00ading delays at lar\u00adger airports.<\/li>\n<li>Secur\u00adity screen\u00ading of bags as you get on the plane is likely to start, to enable people to take some cab\u00adin baggage.<\/li>\n<li>Cheap air\u00adlines which have been try\u00ading to stop people check\u00ading lug\u00adgage and only take on hand lug\u00adgage are going to have a hard&nbsp;time.<\/li>\n<li>Com\u00adpan\u00adies that sell really good pad\u00added bags so you can check your laptop without wor\u00adries will find a lot of cus\u00adtom\u00aders. People should also give more thought to secur\u00ading the data on their laptops when they check them, but most prob\u00adably won\u2019t both\u00ader. Insur\u00adance com\u00adpan\u00adies will have to cope with a lot of claims for lost and dam\u00adaged laptops, iPods, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The mid-80s fash\u00adion for see-through briefcases and purses will be rein\u00advig\u00ador\u00adated. I had one of these purses, it was actu\u00adally quite handy being able to find things quickly in&nbsp;it.<\/li>\n<li>Air tax\u00adis will start to become pop\u00adu\u00adlar as people try to avoid the increas\u00ading unpleas\u00adant\u00adness of com\u00admer\u00adcial air travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will be inter\u00adest\u00ading to see how this all plays out, and wheth\u00ader the vari\u00adous Air Trans\u00adport author\u00adit\u00adies man\u00adage to come up with real, effect\u00adive secur\u00adity meas\u00adures that don\u2019t incon\u00adveni\u00adence the inno\u00adcent too much. I\u2019m just glad I don\u2019t need to travel any\u00adwhere much in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the after\u00admath of the latest round of air travel restric\u00adtions, it seems to me there will be quite a few rami\u00adfic\u00ada\u00adtions for the travel industry, if these restric\u00adtions stay in place for any length of time. Here are some of the ones I see, in no par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar&nbsp;order. Full-ser\u00ad\u00advice air\u00adlines will have a fight\u00ading chance \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/08\/airline-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAir\u00adline Thoughts\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}