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I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad ev
by tschwimmer 11mo ago
I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbound ground stop for KSEA for hours, but it was never announced to passengers. We were very lucky the crew was fresh, and there was no discussion of when they would time out. I happened to find out that the crew had lots of time left so I decided to stay but at least a dozen people gave up and left.
Air travel sucks. I wasted 8 hours today and I won’t even get a lousy T shirt. I’m sure next time I can take my business to a different airline who will also be happy to not do any better.
- chroncueow 11mo ago[flagged]
- anonymous908213 11mo agoTravel insurance is -EV. For the average person who uses it, they will spend more than they recoup. Otherwise the insuring company holding their policy would, you know, not be in business. I don't think there's very much skill in opting in to a -EV bet. The purpose of insurance is to avoid catastrophic losses, which is not a factor in this anecdote.
- heolo739 11mo ago[flagged]
- anonymous908213 11mo agoYour mental faculties are not very well developed, it seems. Card counting is a skill. You gain an edge by being good at a simple game. You have direct influence over the outcome. Ditto the usage of credit cards. It is in no way comparable to insurance. Your only influence over the outcome is to commit fraud (which is in itself a massively -life EV proposition). You are at an unbelievable information disadvantage, because the insurance companies are the ones holding all of the cards and have counted them thoroughly. You have not actually posited a way to gain an advantage in taking traveler's insurance. If it were a skill issue, you would have elaborated on the skills required to do so. Instead you simply suggested that having traveler's insurance at all is a skill issue, and when called out, deflected to completely irrelevant topics.
- croemer 11mo agoFor flights departing or arriving in the EU you get fairly nice compensation for significant delays (3+ hours) between 250 EUR (<1500km) and 600 EUR (>=1500km). Helps ensure incentives align beyond reputation.
- tschwimmer 11mo agoTell me about it. Swiss air refuses to pay out 1800€ in EC261 compensation…
- grumbelbart2 11mo agoThey almost always try that. Save yourself the hassle, use one of the online services who will get that money for you.
- hexbin010 11mo agoPlenty of frequent flyers are willing to help for free too (I assume a majority of those services take a cut). FlyerTalk, Head For Points forums etc
- hexbin010 11mo agoHow far have you taken it? Letter-before-action mentioning CEDR/MCOL? (The stage at which European airlines begin to consider stopping their blanket "no" response) Switzerland might have options for small claims court claims online too
- benterix 11mo agoHappened to me with Alitalia once, they changed their stance immediately when I put the local office of civil aviation on Cc: and the money was soon in my bank account.
- CaptainOfCoit 11mo agoThis is the trick. The CC'd address doesn't even have to be correct, just make sure the host/domain part is the correct official local authority, and they'll do your right really quickly.
- ohdeardear 11mo ago[flagged]
- thaumasiotes 11mo ago> someone should invent an anti-lead; something to put in the water supply to add 30 IQ points, but that would probably be punishable by death Why do you think we add iodine to salt?
- ethbr1 11mo agoMind control?
- zrobotics 11mo agoNo, that's what the fluorine in the water is for
- oasisbob 11mo agoFluoride, the ion, not fluorine the highly reactive atomic gas.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoGaseous fluorine is diatomic. You can't really add a bunch of fluorine ions to water because they'd all be negatively charged. We say we're adding "fluoride", but really we're adding ionic compounds that include fluoride. This seems analogous to the difference between chlorinated water (toxic) and salt water (not at all toxic). It's always interesting to me that adding chlorine to water makes it poisonous, and adding sodium causes it to explode, but adding sodium chloride does... nothing in particular.
- ethersteeds 11mo agoMakes it ready for your pasta!
- tehwebguy 11mo agoSee if you can get some miles out of it. Alaska miles are still some of the most valuable for using on international partners.
- bsimpson 11mo agoEvery flight I've taken in the last year has been a clusterfuck. I've spent damn near as much time in airports as I have in the air. It seriously makes me not want to fly.
- bobthepanda 11mo agoIf only we had ever actually been serious about reviving passenger rail, then we wouldn't have to fly. Most intercity journeys in the US are the perfect distance for intercity or high speed rail, but the system has withered on the vine for so long.
- Aeolun 11mo agoThe trick is to only have 14 hour flights. Then almost any delay will feel rather small by comparison.