Thursday, November 8, 2007

Take 2 : Queuing,..check in..waiting..

The amount of time spent waiting in preparation to boarding your flight is.. to put it bluntly an excessive waste.

Why has no one come up yet with a solution to this horrendous waste of time ? After all, what is the difference between flying and riding a bus? How is it possible with the ever increasing volume of air traffic that we cannot devise a more efficient system?

Does anyone benefits from this? Or do we need to just accept and wait till we, or the company buys us a private jet?

I don't think so.

An impressive amount of time and creative effort has already been spent on bringing the price of flying down. I was just reading that RyanAir is going as far as not charging for its flights! But would it not be an even greater challenge to reduce not just the time in the air by speeding up the flight but also the time spent on preflight processing.

An idea came to mind while spending the predetermined waiting time plus.. a delay.. in one of many typical airports.

Can you develop a rating system based on all the considerations which constitute the cause for these extended waiting periods and give frequent flyers special benefits with this in mind?

Any ideas?

Sirk.

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