More generally, have never really understood the preference for Airbnb over a quality hotel, *especially* on holiday. The point is to escape from the humdrum of the everyday. Airbnb is ‘Just like home, but you’re getting graded on your housekeeping by a stranger.’

Headline probably needs to be rewritten for an Irish readership.

My theory on the Luce: this is the car Jony wanted to design for Apple Apple didn't want to ship it so he made it for Ferrari This car with an Apple logo on it, priced at $100k... would sell extremely well

POV: You’re charging your new Ferrari Luce

Left, Ferrari Luce $645k Right, Nissan Leaf $35k

Really don’t understand the tech obsession with trying to automate the process of booking flights… I think I travel reasonably frequently and it’s really not a big deal to click around for a couple of mins to book a flight…

Airlines don't know who you are and they don't care. The "clear your cookies" hack is one of the most persistent myths in travel, and the real reason prices change is way more interesting. A single economy cabin has 7 to 12 invisible fare classes, each assigned a letter. Q-class might have 40 seats at $250. When those 40 sell, the system closes Q and opens H-class at $350. When H sells out, M-class opens at $475. The price jumps you see aren't the airline punishing you for searching twice. They're inventory depletion in cheaper buckets happening in real time as other people book. A major US carrier with 500 daily flights manages roughly 2.5 million booking limits at any given moment. The yield management system optimizes over a hundred fare bucket combinations per route, updated continuously based on booking velocity, competitor pricing, seasonal demand, and days until departure. Your browser cookies are not a variable in that equation. Your individual search history has the same effect on the algorithm as yelling at a vending machine. The price went up between your first search and your second search because someone in Dallas bought the last seat in the cheap bucket while you were debating. That person would have bought it whether you were on a library computer, your phone, or a 1997 ThinkPad running Netscape Navigator. The real hack for cheaper flights is boring. Book 6 to 10 weeks out for domestic, 8 to 12 weeks for international. Fly midweek. Set fare alerts and wait for the airline to reopen a cheaper bucket when demand underperforms their forecast. That actually works. Clearing your cookies saves you exactly zero dollars.

The goal for Aer Lingus, and all IAG brands, is clear - achieve an annual operating profit margin of between 12-15 per cent. businesspost.ie/daily-briefi…

I would be very surprised it is that few. I had many years where I took over 100 flights, albeit many short haul. Pathetic that this would be raised as a "news" story.

I don't understand why everyone dreads long flights so much. I feel like I change the trajectory of my life every time I take a 20-hour flight across the world. I sit on my computer, listen to podcasts, write, work, introspect, and plan my next season of life (usually fueled by a fair amount of caffeine). By the end of it, I've produced a bunch of content, clarified my vision, and know the exact moves that will get me to the next level. Looking back, long flights often end up being the most transformational days of my year. I look forward to them every time I go traveling for this reason.

In the game of life, Alex Zanardi left nothing in the tank. I remember when he asked me to write the foreword for his book. I asked him anything you want me to say? He said: Well, I need to order new legs- how tall do you think I should be?