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I read through it. What strikes me is that the airlines have intentionally created a system so complex that the most basic task of getting a price to fly from o
by ufmace 12y ago
I read through it. What strikes me is that the airlines have intentionally created a system so complex that the most basic task of getting a price to fly from one city to another at a given time is apparently provably impossible to do properly. This isn't some part of nature that's complex because that's the way that it is, this is a system entirely designed by humans. It's kinda like putting somebody in a life-threatening situation, then saving them from it, then claiming that you saved their life.
Through the whole creation of this system, and whatever steps it went through to end up being this complex, did nobody ever say "Guys, this is all just too freakin' complex. Why don't we simplify it so that we don't need a bunch of geniuses to figure out a way for a person to buy a ticket on one of our flights?"
- TeMPOraL 12y agoYou're right that the system is totally artificially complex, but as I wrote before, from what I read this complexity is solving the problem of how to let someone other than extremely rich people to fly without going broke. That is, flying is so expensive in terms of jet fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and airport operations (and of course, bureaucracy) that they invented this extremely sophisticated system that basically makes the businessmen subsidize tickets for tourists. I really need to find that source.