"Departure lounge limbo costing businesses dear"
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"Departure lounge limbo costing businesses dear"
Quote from Silicon.com
Waiting in departure lounges for planes is not only a pain - it could be costing British business around £600m every year.
Around 35 per cent of business travellers spend three to four hours every month waiting for flights and BT - which serves parts of this addressable market through its Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots - has taken that and other figures to come up with the total of half a billion pounds plus (£599m to be precise) in annual wastage.
BT and others, whether using Wi-Fi or other wireless technologies - note the strong 3G signals at most European airports these days - are targeting this business traveller market. Silicon.com
But not as much time as we spend in the hold waiting for approach to LHR. Now, if we had a third runway there ...
The article goes on to say how important people think it is to be contactable but then ... what about the folks who are getting in contact with the bar? Actually, I rather like being out of contact. I look upon time in the lounge (be it a public or airline one) as private time to read something NOT about work! And you?
Waiting in departure lounges for planes is not only a pain - it could be costing British business around £600m every year.
Around 35 per cent of business travellers spend three to four hours every month waiting for flights and BT - which serves parts of this addressable market through its Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots - has taken that and other figures to come up with the total of half a billion pounds plus (£599m to be precise) in annual wastage.
BT and others, whether using Wi-Fi or other wireless technologies - note the strong 3G signals at most European airports these days - are targeting this business traveller market. Silicon.com
But not as much time as we spend in the hold waiting for approach to LHR. Now, if we had a third runway there ...
The article goes on to say how important people think it is to be contactable but then ... what about the folks who are getting in contact with the bar? Actually, I rather like being out of contact. I look upon time in the lounge (be it a public or airline one) as private time to read something NOT about work! And you?
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I buy a computer magazine, a large coffee and I switch my brain off (unless I'm flying Star Alliance when I don't have to pay for the coffee). Like you, Paxboy, I like the anonimity of the lounges. Nothing worse than bumping into a work colleague at LHR (with due respect and affection to everyone I work with!)
