Life hack
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The real LPT is always in the comments
Hold my AI training data! Because Reddit now owns it.
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It absolutely can work, because people are also lazy fucks etc. It is not like any worker will always want to help you as best as they theoretically could.
I once qued up for a line to the airplane and stood there for basically most of the que. Then suddenly PA announcement calls me out of the que to talkto the employees at the front of the que. The reason: "You sit near emergency exit, are you aware? Y/N".
Then they sent me to the back of the fucking que.
I did not smile to them or say thank you that day.
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I’ll never forget this one. Used to fly a lot for work. Got stuck somewhere cause of “weather”. The low level person and I were talking. I watch a plane takeoff through the window behind him. He’s like you hear that, thunder.
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I saw a guy yell at the gate employee. The guy's flight had arrived late and the employee was telling him that the door to his connecting flight was already closed so she could not let him board even though the plane hadn't left yet. Eventually a manager showed up and got yelled at too and he opened the door and let the guy on the plane. So it can work.
I would have just taken no for an answer and ended up waiting in the airport for however many hours it took for them to find a new flight for me. Stupid me.
There is a trick that may or may not work in this circumstance - tell them your baggage is already in the hold. If they know you aren't on the plane, they would have to unload the plane to recover the baggage. It's worked with me once, where the gate staff called the pilot, who told them to let me through.
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At this point you are training your customers to be abusive arseholes.
Should have revoked the ticket for being abusive and barred that customer for a few months. You are a big boy now, you can work it out. Maybe try not being a cunt next time.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Declining the customer's reasonable request disproportionately affects them. The corporation is a big boy too, and can eat whatever associated cost of accommodating (paying the customer off, resetting the "clock" the pilot is on by opening the door). In some cases, there's no impact to any other customer (such as making up the lost time once you're in the air and can cruise faster). These random occurrences are built into the price. If it happens too often then the corporation needs to track their own data better and not issue tickets with unreasonably timed or otherwise risky connections, because to not do so will enable their competitors to one-up them. Free market, amirite?
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and the flight they rerout you to only departs the next day so good luck sleeping on the floor
Twice I've had a flight that was canceled or returned to origin after 90 minutes in the air and then couldn't redepart until 24 hours after we landed.
They provided hotels both times.
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I learned from a recent conversation (in which I was the jerk) that many of the airplane employees are not actually employees of the airline.
Often they are contractors without any benefits, including free flights. When they have to travel for work, they sometimes have to pay for their own hotels. They literally have to pay just to work.
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I choose to believe this.
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I’ll never forget this one. Used to fly a lot for work. Got stuck somewhere cause of “weather”. The low level person and I were talking. I watch a plane takeoff through the window behind him. He’s like you hear that, thunder.
Sometimes it’s about the class of plane and the weather on the specific route you’re taking.
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Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let's say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it's in your company's best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn't seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don't seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??
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Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let's say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it's in your company's best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn't seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don't seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??
Because planes that aren't moving aren't generating money. And airlines inherently are NOT catering to the Uber rich. The Uber rich have their OWN planes and jets.
A trucking company by comparison has much more to lose if something doesn't ship on time, especially if contracted with high value or time sensitive goods.
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Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let's say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it's in your company's best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn't seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don't seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??
Airlines store their airplanes on airports most of the time when not in the air.
Airports charge them a huge amount of money for this. Even if if there is a few minutes delay, they get big fines for occupying a gate.Imagine having extra planes on standby.
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Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let's say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it's in your company's best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn't seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don't seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??
If you account for the backups having the same failure rate it’s 5.2631579%
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Airlines store their airplanes on airports most of the time when not in the air.
Airports charge them a huge amount of money for this. Even if if there is a few minutes delay, they get big fines for occupying a gate.Imagine having extra planes on standby.
That’s really inefficient, just keep them flying round, constantly, you can fly them to the airport that they will be needed at.
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"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" is an adage that is unfortunately true, and I find it absolutely infuriating.
I would much prefer that we can all be polite and courteous to each other, so when being polite fails but having a screaming tantrum gets results it really makes me annoyed at the unfairness.
i mean that's largely how it works here, if someone's being an ass they get told to fuck off in varyingly polite terms
america dearly needs to unionize, it shouldn't be normal to have to accept verbal abuse while working for a wage that doesn't reliably let you pay rent and buy food
