This Is What a Hackathon 30,000 Feet in the Air Looks Like

A few things that probably come to mind when thinking about hackathons: mobile phones glued to participants' hands, open laptops resting on tables and, without a doubt, an Internet connection. But none of these things are present aboard British Airways' UnGrounded Innovation Lab in the Sky, an 11-hour in-air "hackathon." Instead, British Airways flight 9120, which flew from San Francisco to London overnight on Wednesday, is filled with 130 members of the tech community, poster boards and hundred...