10,000 Brilliant Ideas

If annoyance and frustration are the mothers of invention then I can see why I have so many ideas at the airport. Here's my latest and as usual I haven't actually run any numbers to test my assumptions. Thanks for flying with us. You have 3 baggage options for your flight. 1) Carry-on, which is limited to this this and this. 2) check-in baggage, which is limited to this and this. Or, 3) door-delivery baggage, which is limited to more than First Class of the most generous airline. Door-delivery baggage will be delivered to your door within 3 weeks of your arrival. You don't have to wait at the baggage carousel, you don't have to manhandle it through the airport. What you don't use for carry-on, you can use for check-in. What you don't use for either you can use for door-delivery. And if you need more, you can add as much as you want at a constant rate. Here's why it works (assuming it does). Most of the things people bring on carry-on they don't actua...

How hard would it be to arrange an ad-hoc arrival and departure at an airport for a 747? If the answer is "not impossible", then this idea might work. (disclaimer, I think I already posted something like this. Consider this a refinement.) Get a plane and a web site and a group of admin people who are superb at figuring out arrangements. Then open up for people to join the flying club. You join, then put in possible travel plans way in advance. You can see what routes other people are thinking about to see what's more popular and more likely to actually happen. Then when some cut-off point occurs, whether enough people interested or 6 months ahead or whatever, then an itinerary is laid out and people get the chance to buy a ticket. Those who already expressed interest are given first priority. This works out to the plane flying an irregular schedule around the world. The admin team then arranges arrival and departure with each airport. As long as passengers are buying the...