It’s all AI now. They check the decibel level of how loudly you scream at the workers who have nothing to do with the actual problem. Whoever screams loudest gets access to the secret Karen fleet.
Life hack
Submitted 2 days ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I can’t wait for snack time on the Karen flight. You better believe they’re gonna have those fuckin pretzels.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
nah, there’s a secret code for most places. it’s
000000000000000000000000000000000000000
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 there 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.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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Bieren@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sometimes it’s about the class of plane and the weather on the specific route you’re taking.
D_C@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I did not know this. Thanks!!!
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 day ago
Complimentary life hack: since practice makes perfect, you can just go the airport anytime to treat them like shit, without a ticket. That way, when you really need to, you’re all ready a pro.
cb900f_bodhi@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
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??
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 day ago
That’s really inefficient, just keep them flying round, constantly, you can fly them to the airport that they will be needed at.
BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you account for the backups having the same failure rate it’s 5.2631579%
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
We need shitty life hack comunity
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it’s called reddit
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The real LPT is always in the comments
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Airlines don’t typically want to delay aircraft; they usually have to due to mechanical or other issues they have to check. The more the aircraft is in the air, the more money is made.
If you could see the list of delay causes, you’d think twice about questioning delays.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
If the world was halfway organised, airports would have spare unbranded planes that airlines could use in a pinch when their aircraft need some emergency issues.
Fly it out and back and the main plane is back in use.
Make airlines pay proper compensation and they’d sort this themselves.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Won’t work. Too many different systems between different airlines and aircraft. Pilots won’t be rated to use the right equipment and that’s the last thing you want.
akademy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I choose to believe this.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
reev@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They probably also don’t have the final say themselves and don’t want to bring every complaint to their manager.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
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 times or otherwise risky connections, because to not do so will enable their competitors to one-up them. Free market, amirite?
supamanc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.