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Skyhook, a location data provider for apps, can now track users while flying. How about connecting this with Uber to have a car waiting at the airport?

This being Changi, any discussion of terminals also needs to include speculation about whether this also means an IMAX movie theater, an indoor pool, a golf course, or something even cooler.

Hard to make older U.S. airports inviting through change sin structural design, but this is one good way to improve user experience. Especially since airlines aren't thinking about it.

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary may be a poor man's Richard Branson, but his success where traditional carriers have failed demonstrates that his style of flying is here to stay.

Flying is already the safest means of transportation and taking away some control from humans during more challenging portions of the route may remove the pilots from their tasks one step too far.

You might think that after over a decade of stringent rules about what you can and can't bring on a flight that people would stop bringing knives and such to airports. But their mistake can be your prize if you know where to shop.

As airlines get better at passenger profiling they will drive greater loyalty among frequent flyers, but they should make sure the the gap between high-flyer and leisure traveler isn't so wide that potential customers get turned off.

The U.S. congress getting involved in airline seating is an even worse idea than airline industry execs meddling in it, but the threat of restrictions on how and when families are assigned seats may force the industry to provide fewer complications with seating fees.

FAA is one big PR disaster away from clamping down on the cost-cutting-leading-to-lower-safety ways, but it may need that one push for that action.

Normal training for a border officer is six to eight weeks, yet new staff managing desks are coming in with a day under their belts. When you layer on top the ambitious incompetence of the Home Office's political appointees, you've got a real mess on your hands.