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Ask HN: What is it you wishlist for an airline tech?
Today, many airline apps, with varying quality, give you your flight bookings, flight tracking, travel content and administration of your bookings. You may have seen even some Kiosks (fake) agents talking to you to help.
What are your pain points you wished were solved, and if you'd pay for it? it can be any technology, apps, channels, VR, AI, or IoT.
- Bino 10y agoWhat about their business model (where you can't win and stupid fees everywhere) or mistreatment of customers (delays, cancels etc.).
- topdevshop 10y agoWhat do you think can be a new business model for airlines?
- 6stringmerc 10y agoHow about a 'bot' that can follow an itinerary (ex: TripCase) and tie in with two other sources: 1) Weather feeds, 2) Airplane routing. The bot will notify (or help manage) the traveler's schedule by alerting potential weather issues outside the normal scope of the individual traveler. As in, the plane the flight is booked to use got held up by weather in Seattle and won't make it to Houston for the intended trip of Houston to Miami. This way re-booking could be considered before 'the rush' in theory. Also, considering the loading/unloading issues, why not hand out little light up buzzers like at restaurants? Call people in waves, certain sections of the plane, just do it more efficiently. Considering how, ahem optimized cabin layouts are to smushing people in with very little legroom, then being strategic about loading makes sense. Tickets and lines are kind of old hat, even scanning a phone. Just scan a phone / ticket, a buzzer comes out a dispenser, go mosey around, find a seat, whatever. Note: Expect 1-2% loss of buzzers due to people dropping them in toilets or something.
- topdevshop 10y agoI wish you could go on more :)
- 6stringmerc 10y agoI'd be happy to by way of an exchange of goods or monies for intellectual capital.
- JSeymourATL 10y agoHow about basic seats that don't suck, with space for a normal size adult. Quit treating passengers like cattle. The solution would seem rather low-tech.
- topdevshop 10y agoWell, I think the only part of airlines that you can apply lean startup is the tech part. The rest is just too big a behemoth to move internally.