Richardquest

Efficacy and efficiency are not mutually exclusive. DXN, SIN even LHR all manage to do it securely and quickly. They’ve had years to get this in place. And the summer hasn’t even got started.

The departure Passport lines @CPH averaging 45 seconds - not bad. BUT The arrival lines are long. How EU officials can be proud of this summer shambles is beyond understanding.

Hmm watch and tell Me why not….@MTA @Amtrak

Taking off from #Heathrow there she sits. #concorde still the most beautiful metal bird that flew.

Tonight I am in #Berlin. I realise it is 40 years since I first came here. The Wall was still up the city was split and I actually went through checkpoint Charlie

Sitting on a train trying not to listen t the conversations around me (why do people speak so loud?). Today Can anyone get through a sentence without 2 ‘likes’ and 3 ‘you knows’

Today my twin and I are 64. Gosh. It even sounds old open.spotify.com/track/1zdBFL2U…

It all depends on how long this war lasts.

U.S. sheds jobs last month. Now the feds dual mandate becomes really hard: do you focus on weaking jobs and cut rates? Or focus on rising inflation because of rising oil prices and hold the line (or think of tightening). Either way the situation is getting worse

At least 5 Gulf heavies at SYD that won’t be flying back today! EK/EY/QR stranded here for the time being while gulf airspace closed.

As I say - no logic to this other than a rule that must be followed.

No logic to @emirates luggage policy. I am 7k over J class allowance. If I leave it in my suitcase I pay $250. If I put it in my handluggage no extra charge (the plane still uses the extra fuel to carry the 7k).

This was indeed a different judgement. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Worth reading the judge’s opinion in the case of the father and 5 yr old son. “Blistering” is how NYT calls it. A real constitutional lesson storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

@afneil @British_Airways Yup Andrew. Same here. It just became too difficult to keep Gold with the new tier levels. My travels haven’t gone down, they moved the goal posts. BUT Not sure BA are bothered at least they don’t seem to be.

A case study in how @British_Airways, by setting impossibly high tier point hurdles, is going to lose a lot of money/big paying customers. Planning my next trip to NYC in Spring. Normally I’d do business Nice-London on BA, return first class London-NYC-London and business London-Nice, fitting in a few working days in London there and back. All up the fares would come to around £5,000 for flights in second half of April. A lot of money — especially since it comes out of my pocket. Nobody picks up my expenses. But at my age I like to travel in comfort. And I like the BA crews. However now that the tier point hurdle is too high for renewing guest list status for all but perpetual travellers, why bother planning a schedule round BA flights? I’ve booked Nice-NYC-Nice first class return on Delta for just over €3,000. No brainer, really. Direct flight, almost half the price. And @British_Airways will lose £5,000. Plus much more if this now becomes my regular NYC schedule. I can’t tell you the number of people I know now doing similar flight schedule planning which simply removes BA from the planning, when it used to be at the centre. And, yes, I know it’s most definitely a first-world problem! But BA makes most of its money from passengers flying first/business. With fewer of us the fares of premium/economy passengers will rise. Well done @British_Airways. How to stuff loyal, high-paying customers of longstanding for no good reason whatsoever. Hi @Delta. Thanks for reserving me seat 1A both ways! Can’t wait.