Tag Archives: Transport

Extra, extra, extra

By November 24 2009, 12:07 pm Leave a comment

Back in the golden age of flying, you paid your fare and then got on and enjoyed the service.

Nowadays you can be charged extra for basics like having luggage, switching seats and wanting a cuppa, never mind a cheese sarnie.

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Mid-flight tweet

By November 12 2009, 9:23 am 1 Comment

Lufthansa has found an innovative way to get its name pinged around the web.

Through its free MySkyStatus service, fliers can sign up for flight status updates to be posted automatically to their Facebook or Twitter profiles.

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Reinventing the (penny farthing) wheel

By October 13 2009, 8:46 am Leave a comment

YikeBike have brought back the penny-farthing to demonstrate how smart technology can help people enjoy our increasingly stressful cities again. (Cheers, Signor Mino.)

The mini-farthing concept, and its expression, the Yikebike, was created by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers, and aims to dramatically improve urban transport and give city dwellers a fast, safe, easy way to get around. It uses state-of-the-art technology, engineering and industrial design to create a new class of personal transport.

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A new meaning for the phrase, ‘destination branding’

By October 8 2009, 7:16 am Leave a comment

 

Pop-up retail is nothing new but Planeshop is turning the idea on its head. They’re opening a permanent store in Glasgow Airport which will then periodically be taken over by a different brand.

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Car showroom chic

By September 15 2009, 8:23 am Leave a comment

Nissan has opened a luxury brand outlet for its Infiniti car range. Building on its high-end, prestigious magazine, Adeyaka, the dealership centre offers a level of service the company claims will be unique, dished out from premises designed to feel like a luxury ’boutique hotel’.
(Cheers, petrol-head Jonny.)

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Crash the autopilot

By September 14 2009, 10:04 am Leave a comment

Thomson Airways have produced an in-flight safety video with a difference. Instead of the usual rictus-grinning air-hostess going through the motions, they’ve used kids to deliver the safety messages instead. Now, instead of glazing over or looking out of the window, passengers listen, captivated, and many even applaud when the video ends.

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