Adam Smith opened The Wealth of Nations with a pin factory. One untrained worker makes a handful of pins a day. Ten workers, each doing one of eighteen steps, make tens of thousands. Specialisation won, and for almost 250 years it kept winning, anywhere …
My son finished kindergarten today.
June 19, 2026My son finished kindergarten today. He has no idea it was the last day of anything - for him it was just Friday, with a party.
For most families, summer is the start of holidays. For aviation it is the start of the hardest season of the year - the one …
Two months ago I wrote: vendor-managed AI degrades silently.
The most uncomfortable number in aviation this year is not in the profit forecast.
June 15, 2026The most uncomfortable number in aviation this year is not in the profit forecast. It is in the economics report nobody quotes.
Airports are handling record passenger volumes. And non-aeronautical revenue per passenger is going down, not up.
About 37% of …
I was in Paris with my family the other week.
June 13, 2026I was in Paris with my family the other week. We visited the Argonaute submarine at Cité des sciences et de l’industrie.
Flew Ryanair - Europe’s Favourite Airline, we found it spacious.
The FIDS (Flight Information Dissemination System) should present the most relevant Information for passengers at each touchpoint.
June 11, 2026The FIDS (Flight Information Dissemination System) should present the most relevant Information for passengers at each touchpoint.
In this case the most relevant information is the FIFA World Cup 2026™ - Canada, Mexico and the United States live sore and …
What is an acquisition?
June 10, 2026It is the moment a company with 3,000 engineers announces it needed to buy 30 engineers to ship a feature.
And the moment those 30 engineers announce they would rather have the money now than the product later.
𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢 …
Brilliant showcase of the AirportLabs RealTime platform, proudly running at DOH: https://lnkd.in/du79DGZy
May 13, 2026Brilliant showcase of the AirportLabs RealTime platform, proudly running at DOH: https://lnkd.in/du79DGZy
Thank you Sam Chui
A customer told me, recently, that he was told gate allocation at an airport is rather like playing Tetris.
May 7, 2026A customer told me, recently, that he was told gate allocation at an airport is rather like playing Tetris. And on the surface, this is a wonderful metaphor. The pieces fall. You slot them in. The rows clear. You score points. Marvellous.
The trouble is, …
You watch the news.
May 5, 2026You watch the news. Our infra team watches this.
Somewhere in the world, an airspace closed. Our user base went up 25x in minutes. Operators replanning. Airlines rebooking. Dispatchers refreshing.
A passive system would have melted. Ours didn’t. …