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Momentarily ignoring the myriad complexities of name matching, unfortunately you get no points for coming up with potentially technologically superior solutions

Momentarily ignoring the myriad complexities of name matching, unfortunately you get no points for coming up with potentially technologically superior solutions for these sorts of problems. The people involved in maintaining this system certainly knew that there were better ways to do it. It’s an organisational / people problem. The real skill is making anyone listen to you, and pulling airlines away from a legacy system, and dealing with the inevitable claims that the government owes them $100mil a pop for “having to comply with increased compliance requirements”.

philsnow 4y ago
> dealing with the inevitable claims that the government owes them $100mil a pop for “having to comply with increased compliance requirements”. It would be amusing to announce "hey the incumbent airlines each seem to think this change is going to cost them $100M to implement, so instead we're offering $80M to newcomer airlines who know damn well they can do the integration for $100k". (not that I would want the government to do this, necessarily, I just have a mindset that is contemptuous towards the inefficiencies of ancient/giant companies)