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We are already in an era of compensation culture. For example a few weeks ago Manchester Airport Group got hacked, and a large amount of personal data was stolen. Within hours of the notifications going out, there were legal companies offering services to claim compensation. So that boat has...

Well I've been in a crowd of thousands at an airport to tell you it is not. The system should not be going down for hours the way it did, and as discussed this is not the first time. That's it, end of. I'm sorry to say be this post feels like it fell straight out of the press office at NATS...

What also costs vast amounts is canning tens if not hundreds of thousands of customer's flights / holidays, pay for additional accommodation & food for stranded passengers, coaches for passengers diverted & logistics costs for those passengers whose luggage stayed on the planes whilst they were...

It's just flashed up on my Facebook feed that next weekend's (19/09/26) FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round between Redcar and Darlington is going to be on the BBC iPlayer at 12:30pm.

Yes they would, so I would hope that would focus minds a little more. And it certainly would lead to more serious questions being asked of the people in charge, because the CEO seems almost bulletproof despite several failures. Not necessarily, I'm more interested in key infrastructure being...

Not really. Jet2 had the craft on the ground, but MAG couldn't provide buses to the remote stand because flights were being diverted to Manchester because of the failure. There was then a good two hour period when nothing took off from Manchester, which we told was as a direct result of the NATS...

After 3 major fails in 3 years, he should be packed off to the job centre. If most ordinary folk where at the heart of such a monumental cock up* we'd be out on our ear. But this is UK plc, where the consumer doesn't matter so long as the profits roll... (*I know that the suspicion is a cyber...

They only had 2 or 3 flights a day maximum, so it's not going to make a massive impact. If anything the other operators may take up the easyJet slots.

Crikey this thread exploded quickly, over a simple mistake that was quickly rectified. It was probably just a poorly worded contract that didn't properly specify which gates should have the stickies applied to them. There are far, far more important things in the world for Transport Secretaries...

I know an office I used to be based at had 8 lifts, and it was very rare for all to be fully functional at the same time. Some seemed to break down more than others, though I've no idea why. I'd image though that at railway stations many are more exposed to the elements, and so are perhaps more...

It sounds like the chief executive of Transport Scotland has a little too much time on her hands. I'm guessing all other transport issues in Scotland are resolved and running at 100% efficiency?

To be fair to the aviation industry, it's a lot harder to recover delays that get baked into schedules when issues arise earlier in the day. I think a 1 hour scheme would send many operators straight into bankruptcy. For the most part, 3 hours for flights seems about right. Not ideal if you have...

These kind of kids live in a world where they could end up getting beaten up, stabbed, shot or any combination of those at any moment. As a result they lose the sense of fear, and just take the risk of dying as a matter of fact.

No it doesn't excuse it, but it does explain it. When the (seemingly) wealthiest people immediately around you are the gang members and drug dealers, it's not hard to imagine the allure of getting in with the wrong crowd. And when these kids do, they quickly come to believe they are bulletproof...

OK, who is up for starting a book to guess as to how long it will be before a blocked line is caused by a drone falling onto the lines / overheads.... ;)

Easy as that eh? Why don't people just follow this simple premise, and get rich? It must be because they are lazy.... Or maybe it's because in many parts of the country those opportunities are fewer and further between, if they exist at all? This sounds a lot like the "American Dream". You...

You would think / hope that contingency plans would include "what would happen if we lost power to HQ / servers". But then this is the railways we are talking about here, contingency planning isn't one of it's strong points.

Well perhaps it's time to rethink higher education. Does every young person really need to have a degree and rack up tens of thousands in order to get into work, often that doesn't necessarily make use of their specific subject? Maybe getting more young people into employment sooner, and earning...

That's a very twee aspiration. Just one question, whose paying for millions of people living the life of leisure? I'm going to wager it's not the AI companies...

'A' human yes, at least for now. But not many humans, and not necessarily forever. The more we teach the models, and the more information we give it access to, the more capable it becomes at replacing humans including the people who would once upon a time would have been turning the idea into...