Unfortunately a pointless waste of time and money. This level of technology is only as effective as the quality of the staff and maintenance allows. Given the state of play at our airports and the increasing level of cost take out, the machines will have little value after a week or two. I guess ...

Interesting to see how quickly Virgin forget the volume of business FF's who came across from QANTAS as a protest. It won't take much program tweaking to annoy FF's enough into returning. Personally I find the flight operations at Virgin excellent, but the ground operation appalling. The silver p...