Air travel stinks. That’s a given. But the question is whether business travel can be improved.
Some of the obvious upgrades we’d like (more legroom at our coach seats, for instance) would disrupt the economics of a downtrodden, not particularly inventive industry. Others are, frankly, impossible in a world of $100-a-barrel oil.
But some improvements would make our lives easier, declutter the air-travel system, and help blacken the airlines’ blood-red financial performance too. Click here for six simple ideas from Portfolio.com that would work if only the airlines could see the forest as they fly over the trees.