Meet Susie and Kevin, travel’s Achilles heel
WE need to rethink the issue of human labour in our industry, urges Timothy O’Neil-Dunne, principal, T2Impact. How can we do more with fewer people?
As the world emerges from the pandemic, the desire to travel has exploded. Looking at the future it is hard to ignore that in the field of travel, [...]
The promise of the Third Age of Digital Travel – let’s live up to it
The time is now to act together and make our industry incredible or face a barrage of restrictions and regulations. Timothy O'Neil-Dunne gets into what can be done collectively, to prove travel's value to governments and to societies.
We are entering the Third Age of Digital Travel – a time o [...]
Reality check: WFA it’s not what you think it is!
WFA is all good and well for those who've actually worked in an office before and know what it's like. But what about the newbies who've never had a chance to experience working with people in a real environment? What are they missing? Can the older generation offer a helping hand? Timothy O'Nei [...]
Words to banish and those to live by in 2022
Timothy O'Neil-Dunne of T2Impact pens a year-end piece that captures his thoughts on the thinking that needs to change and the new words to embrace in the new year.
ENDING my formal work position this year has given me a lot to think about what 2021 has come to mean and what we should aspire to [...]
The future of work and travel
IN most major coporations travel for work occupies a major facility for the worker of all types. Will business travel ever fully recover? I believe that the answer is no, but with some caveats.
Interaction
between teams has long been part of the work life we are used to. So has
meeting with cu [...]
The 7 Stages to the New Normal, revisited
WHEN I wrote the original post, 7 Stages to the New Normal, revisited – “the lack of progress haunts my thinking”, much of it was based on conjecture and crystal ball gazing – admittedly guided by decades of observation of our industry.
It has been nearly 18 months since the first effec [...]
Security in Travel: How to realistically open borders.
THERE are so many gaffes in aviation caused by unpreparedness and missteps that it is almost impossible to catalogue. The Covid-19 virus should have been treated at the outset as a security issue. The recovery is disjointed as the lack of common approaches to the pandemic especially in Asia Pacific [...]
7 Stages to the New Normal, revisited – “the lack of progress haunts my thinking”
When I wrote the first version of the story that was published in WiT three weeks ago, I used less data than is now available. Now I think we have a better view of the situation. Thus I am revising my timeline and it’s not pretty.
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne revises the timeline of 'The 7 Stages to [...]
Your plane is clean but is it safe? A plan for “safe flight protocol”
Answer no. And it’s not the airline’s fault. World flying has dwindled to a trickle. On any given day it's a fraction of normal. Traffic through the airports in USA have fallen to less than 5% of normal for the past week in the USA. China had only 15% of airline passengers in February 2020 [...]
The 7 Stages to the New Normal
Changing the way we travel would have been unthinkable at the end of 2019. But now we must accept it. The travel world has been turned upside down. How can we get back to a normal steady state and how does that happen? Welcome to the seven stages of the new normal, writes Timothy O’Neil-Dunne, pr [...]
