http://robertleverington.com/blog/2008/09/07/budget-airlines/ Technology, the internet, and whatever crosses his path. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://robertleverington.com/blog/2008/09/07/budget-airlines/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Sean Whitton Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:05:00 +0000 http://robertleverington.com/blog/?p=73#comment-111 Cheap air travel as we have grown up with is unlikely to be something we die with. The problems our generation will face with both fuel supply and pollution will bring it to an end. It's simply not sustainable. In my view it should be cracked down on now with tax to ensure we have fuel available for when it is really needed eg emergency food aid. Cheap air travel as we have grown up with is unlikely to be something we die with. The problems our generation will face with both fuel supply and pollution will bring it to an end. It’s simply not sustainable. In my view it should be cracked down on now with tax to ensure we have fuel available for when it is really needed eg emergency food aid.

]]> http://robertleverington.com/blog/2008/09/07/budget-airlines/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Tomalak Geret'kal Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:03:23 +0000 http://robertleverington.com/blog/?p=73#comment-97 Theory in the telecoms industry goes that the reason phones are not allowed on flights is not that they interfere with on-board equipment, but that they have the potential to overload local mast on landing (as a whole plane load of phones connects to network simultaneously) and that this is a great excuse to prohibit the sheer annoyance of people chatting on phones in a crowded, public space. Theory in the telecoms industry goes that the reason phones are not allowed on flights is not that they interfere with on-board equipment, but that they have the potential to overload local mast on landing (as a whole plane load of phones connects to network simultaneously) and that this is a great excuse to prohibit the sheer annoyance of people chatting on phones in a crowded, public space.

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