I’m heading to Sydney tonight to finish up a class on Thursday and Friday. Chris had to fly back to Melbourne for a much more important client engagement. While I have a spare moment I thought I might catch up on some blogging and e-mail.
I’m actually sitting on the floor in the Qantas terminal there there are only two double power points as far as I can see, when I arrived someone was sitting in the seats close enough to those points to use them.
What I would love to see at the Canberra terminal is a change in seating arrangements. For the same amount of room Qantas could set up several rows of work spaces where business travellers could plug in their laptops and get some work done – if they were really forward thinking they might even provide wired network access as a component of the cost of the ticket.
If I look at the Virgin Blue terminal less than two hundred metres away, they have desks that people can sit at with power sockets (although no phone points).
Unfortunately I’m not a member of Qantas Club and the wireless signal is too weak out here in the cattle yards to get a reliable connection. All this implies that Internet connectivity is a luxury item when in fact its not.
Anyway – the afternoon rush should be over soon, so at least I’ll be sitting comfortably.
Stop Press: Dr. Neil and Dave Glover just walked past on their way to their flight. Its a small world.