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Planes crash into World Trade Center
News Two planes crashed into the two World Trade Center towers in New York around 8:30 a.m. Reports say that the two planes came from a Boston airport. EST today, igniting fires and speculation of a terrorist attack.
[September 11, 2001, 15:01]
IPTV takes off on planes with GSM to follow
Talkback Christ, what's all this 'watching TV on planes' now, don't flyers have better things to do? Don't people have sex anymore, I'd much rather have four women at once than four channels.
[July 13, 2005, 1:17]
Europe edges closer to mobile phones on planes
News The US Federal Aviation Authority ruled earlier this month that it would not allow mobile calls on planes for the foreseeable future. The likelihood of mobile-phone usage being allowed on flights within Europe increased on Thursday after Ofcom...
[October 18, 2007, 13:10]
'No mobiles' to replace 'no smoking' signs on planes
News The overhead "no mobile" signs will be retrofitted to old aircraft and fitted to new Airbus planes coming off the production line, which will be used by airlines to provide the in-flight mobile phone service.
[August 7, 2006, 16:10]
IPTV takes off on planes with GSM to follow
News The world's first IPTV service was launched on Singapore Airlines flights on Saturday, bringing four television channels passengers over the planes' wireless IP network. We are now enabling GSM voice services on-board, by installing pico cells...
[July 12, 2005, 11:25]
RFID keeps Virgin planes in the air
Talkback Maybe Gareth Lewis can tell Wal-Mart where he got the gun that can take a snapshot inventory of his planes. Wal-Mart is having trouble reading just a pallet load of case goods, and has to resort to reading cases one at a time.
[February 23, 2006, 16:56]
Solar-powered planes for 3G and broadband
News According to Stuart Hindle, vice-president of strategy and business development at SkyTower, the success of the tests shows that SkyTower's planes could complement, and in some cases supersede, satellite and terrestrial telecoms systems.
[July 23, 2002, 14:50]
RFID keeps Virgin planes in the air
News Gareth Lewis, IT services director at Virgin Group, said on Monday that RFID was helping Virgin Atlantic to keep its planes in the air longer. Two of the UK's largest companies are using RFID tags to make their businesses more efficient, but in...
[February 21, 2006, 10:00]
Wi-Fi: Coming soon on board US planes?
News It plans first to cover planes traversing the continental United States and later expand the network to the rest of North America. We're running pretty full planes. US Airways, which ranks fifth among the nation's largest airlines, said it would...
[June 6, 2006, 11:05]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Sorry - I like BA, they fly nice safe planes and are all nice people. Grrr… is it just me? Or have you people also been sat at 34,000 feet enjoying your ‘Worcester Sauce’ flavour pretzel bites and G&Ts while tuning into the new BA video on-demand...
[January 10, 2008, 18:36]
FCC nixes phones on planes
Blog So, the Federal Communications Commission over in the States has confirmed that it doesn't want mobile phones to be usable on planes, but it seems it'll be OK to have onboard Wi-Fi. Seriously though, do people really want phones or Wi-Fi on planes?
[April 5, 2007, 10:00]
RFID keeps Virgin planes in the air
Talkback Stephen, Unfortunately hyped up stories like this is what scares people into thinking of RFID as "Spychips" that will control their lives. The application related to life vests seems reasonable provided that the tags can be read without dismantling...
[February 26, 2006, 13:02]
Wi-Fi: Coming soon on board US planes?
Talkback Absolutely agree with Emmanuel. Airlines should not even be considering this! I am also puzzled that the author of the article does not seem to appreciate the significant differences between cellular telephone technology and wi-fi access points.
[June 9, 2006, 21:16]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment At least it's only the entertainment system they have to re-boot. When my local train operator C2C splashed out on a complete fleet of shiny new (purple) trains they had months of "teething problems".
[January 13, 2008, 21:29]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment IFE systems are famously unreliable on many carriers, and remain one of cabin crews' least favourite things. Let me quote from a recent post on Pprune, the pilots' forum and one of my favourite haunts:
[January 11, 2008, 8:08]
RFID keeps Virgin planes in the air
Talkback Chris, I think Gareth Lewis has been misquoted. One must assume Virgin is using passive chips, long range active tags surely wouldn't be compatible with the operating environment, and anyway cost too much.
[February 24, 2006, 8:21]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment Ah yes - the longest reboot in history, god knows what OS they must be using. On a recent 10 hour flight I took, the four attempts to reboot took the best part of 4 hours by which point most people had given up - thank god for iPods and Sudoku.
[January 10, 2008, 21:50]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment What next? If this sort of thing keeps up people may be forced to actually talk to each other on flights. What an awaful situation that would be. Fly Business Class, you get the Bose headphones to use on the flights with AA and others.
[January 11, 2008, 7:35]
'No mobiles' to replace 'no smoking' signs on planes
Talkback please god no, it is bad enough listening to stupid calls at high volume while waiting to take off. Now to have them also while in the air is unthinkable
[August 9, 2006, 11:20]
'No mobiles' to replace 'no smoking' signs on planes
Talkback What next? No s*x signs replacing no mobiles signs? If a high proportion of the world's people enjoy something, it is sure to get banned. Even with "No Mobiles" signs, it's a guarantee that many businessmen, especially those in economy class, will...
[August 8, 2006, 15:36]
