New technology is easing years of travel tedium just as flight shaming enters a new phase
An odd thing happened on my way back to London last weekend, when I got to the security line at Milan’s Malpensa airport. I was going through the usual palaver of fishing out my laptop and liquids for screening when an official barked: “No!” The airport now had high-tech scanning machines, she said, so everything could stay in my bag. I blinked at her.
This year, Jean-Marc Jancovici, a French climate expert, made what I imagined to be a wildly unpopular call for people to be limited to just four flights in their lifetime. But when pollsters asked what the French thought of the idea, 41 per cent said they were in favour. The figure shot up to 59 per cent for 18 to 24-year-olds, the consumers — and voters — of the future. This probably should not have been a surprise.
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