DESIGN IN BRITAIN: How bad a problem is air rage? New data means a clearer picture will soon emerge.

DESIGN IN BRITAIN: If the monotony of business-class accomodation is starting to get you down, Aoife O'Riordain may have the answer - the `boutique hotel'

DESIGN IN BRITAIN: Carriers are scrambling to indulge business travellers in their new comfort zones.

The architect of the Thrust supersonic land-speed record, Richard Noble, talks about the technology behind his plans to launch a fleet of 13,000 low-cost "air taxis"

MOST AIRLINE passengers would settle for a flight that was safe, relaxing and stress-free. Not so those party-animals around at KLM, who think flying should be "fun, exciting and energetic". To that end the Dutch flag-carrier plans to launch its own low-cost airline from Stansted next year. Just to make sure that no-one mistakes Buzz for all the other no-frills airlines queuing up to use the airport, its fleet will be painted a garish mixture of sunflower yellow, purple and lime green.

BRITISH AIRWAYS is paying around pounds 5m to acquire a minority stake in the business travel website, Biztravel.com, owned by Rosenbluth Interactive, the online travel agency.

BRITISH MIDLAND, the European short-haul carrier, is within days of sealing a deal to join a global airline alliance.

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FRAGMENTS OF the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official in charge of the Final Solution, surfaced mysteriously in Germany yesterday, whetting historians' appetite for a document seen until now by only a few researchers.

ALMOST HALF the British workforce feels so undervalued and stressed in their job that they want to leave, according to new research. Employees are fed up with making sacrifices, including not having a family, because their career precludes a decent home life.

LOSING WEIGHT is harder than putting it on, but First Leisure, the health clubs to bowling alleys group run by Michael Grade, finds it easier to lose shareholder value than add it.

THE SERIOUS Fraud Office yesterday said it had charged the former chairman and chief executive of Wickes, the DIY chain, with fraudulent trading and making false statements.

Romanian management students added value to their OU coursework by using it to set up a business travel company - selling services back to course organisers.

BOB AYLING, chief executive of British Airways, seems to have become a deeply unpopular man. The press hates him, the unions despise him, and the City is at best ambivalent and sometimes outright hostile. After yesterday's dramatic, though not unexpected, plunge in reported annual profits, there were renewed calls for his head - now a seemingly ritual event every time he puts it above the parapet.