Summary
FOR sales executive Jane McGregor, the airline delays of the past 10 days have brought much opportunity for stoical resignation, deep thinking and reading. Deprived of the modern executive's necessities of mobile phone and portable computer, the waiting around in departure lounges became "dead time", where she could no longer catch up on work or prepare for meetings.
Last Sunday, the sales manager for Fife-based retinal-imaging specialists Optos arrived at Heathrow from a holiday in Dubai and later in the day she flew from London Stansted to Nantes in France, enduring a three-hour delay before leaving.See the full content of this document
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The Flight From Danger
Monday saw her return to Stansted and then fly to Edinburgh, again after more delays and restrictions on what she could carry with her. Finally, she flew to Leeds and back last Friday.
"To be honest I am prepared to put up with the delays for security," McGregor said. "It is frustrating not to have the mobile phone in the departure lounge so you can tell people that you're running late. But you have to learn to relax and accept it and maybe get a book from WH Smith's."The thousands of de...See the full content of this document
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