How Delta is Using Personalization to Enhance the Business Travel Experience
In the last several years, airlines have been steadily focused on improving the customer experience while in the air, offering Wi-Fi and power available during flight, better and often locally procured food, craft beer, and enhanced drink offerings, robust entertainment options, and even more comfortable seating with additional inches of legroom in some cases.
No matter how sophisticated, the onboard experience will never be able to replace personalized human interactions that only people on the front lines can offer. .
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Laptop Ban on Planes is Lifted, U.S. Officials Confirm
The laptop ban is over.
Passengers flying into the United States from airports in 10 Muslim-majority countries affected by the ban may now take their laptops and other large electronic devices into the cabin with them, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Thursday.
Security officials imposed the ban in March, warning then that the Islamic State was developing bombs that could be hidden in portable electronic devices. But the airlines and airports affected by the ban have all complied with the initial phase of the new Homeland Security standards, allowing the prohibition to be lifted, the department said.
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Flying With a Tablet or E-Reader? Seperate Screening Bins, Please.
Get ready to empty your bags at airport security. Going forward, you'll need to place electronics larger than a cell phone in individual bins for screening, the Transportation Security Administration announced today.
Travelers already need to place laptops in separate plastic bins for screening, but in the coming months and weeks, you'll need to do the same for things like tablets, e-readers and handheld game consoles.
"This simple step helps TSA officers obtain a clearer X-ray image," and is intended "to raise the baseline for aviation security worldwide," the TSA says.
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