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Meanwhile: the Ryanair app actually works, unlike many others. EasyJet App is slop, the BA app is total shite.
by mhh__ 2y ago
Meanwhile: the Ryanair app actually works, unlike many others.
EasyJet App is slop, the BA app is total shite.
- brnt 2y agoMaybe it works, because through the app they are clable to collect much more data about you? I'll never let companies like Ryanair execute code on my devices. I don't care how well it works.
- mhh__ 2y agohow much data are they supposed to be collecting from inside an android app that basically takes a credit card payment and displays a QR code? Ryanair at one point at least had their margins such that every penny a passenger spends other than the ticket was profit, so they actually have less incentive to do this than some of the other carriers.
- switch007 2y agoI'm no Ryanair fanboy but they do have the best tech, no denying. Everything just works. EasyJet website/tech seems stuck in the year 2005
- NoboruWataya 2y agoAnother rather minor thing is that if you look at the source of their confirmation emails, they include a lot of reservation data in XML tags according to the schema.org specification (https://schema.org/FlightReservation https://schema.org/FlightReservation). I was looking for a way to parse flight details out of confirmation emails before, and with Ryanair it is trivially easy to do because of this whereas with most other airlines you have to resort to parsing the plaintext or (awful) HTML. Again, not a big thing but I was surprised that Ryanair seemed to be the only ones who took a standards-based approach to these emails.
- lesuorac 2y agoI'm always kind of surprised when things don't just work. Like having customers seamlessly interact with a computer is one of the cheapest ways of getting money.
- mhh__ 2y agoThe overtime alone would be a nightmare!