Open forum for travelers locked out of airport electricity

By at 11:08 pm Tuesday, Feb 28

WiFiNetNews has an open forum for travel-geeks to talk about which airports are dumb enough to lock travelers out of recharging their laptops on lay-overs, following on from yesterday's post about Montreal airport putting locks on its AC outlets. I've heard from a reader that London Stansted, which I use about 20 times a year, has started to lock down its electricity too. If it's true, I'm switching to Gatwick.
Frequent travellers need juice between flights, and airports that sell WiFi without providing the electricty to use it are like coffee-shops without toilets. They're missing out on the revenue they'd get from people who'd buy the WiFi if only they had the power to use it.
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