5) skip #5. It is already done by the Pilot. It is filed with the airlines.
Currently there is no passenger ejection reporting requirement. Most ejections are for valid cause, so filing a formal FAA report protects everyone in case of legal action. But at the same time it would subject the carrier to scrutiny if an ejection occurs because "A passenger took sick, so we put out a PA call for medical assistance, and this black woman stepped in who the flight attendant thought didn't look like a doctor" (Delta, just recently). If airlines knew that such actions could result in a walloping fine or even federal indictments of crew, the junk ejection problem would vanish.
What I'm aiming at is to define what a standard ticket should include a minimum. A few people can get by without checking a bag, but most people check one piece. Charging for the first checked bag motivates pax to haul everything on board, which is a huge time-wasting mess. Airlines will publicly bitch but privately be overjoyed to not have every passenger vainly cramming a kitchen sink into the overheads. It will speed up boarding.
It's true that a lot of overselling is caused by intentionally making the ticket rules, which are not negotiable and peculiarly not subject to competition, so restrictive that a lot of paid-for seats are simply abandoned. Transferability would cut down on this considerably, but oversales would still occur from time to time.
When I started flying, in the Golden Age of the early Seventies, reservations were freely changeable until flight time. Airlines saw an industry-average 8% no-show rate and used that figure as their rationale for making everything non-refundable.
Today's no-show rate is...the envelope please... TEN PERCENT. I am not making this up.
This is a quibble, but an understandable one. We ânavigateâ(TM) in the air and do âgeology â on the Moon. Why the sudden need for a neologism for earthquake?
The existing oversell auction takes care of this case, but it can break down when airlines stop raising their bids enough to voluntarily free up a seat. That was what led to the Dao dragging. They just picked this guy out at random and dragged him off.
My list is of course not exhaustive. The original family splitting problem is an example of something we could add.
Fixing intentional family split-ups should be part of a bill that gets rid of a number of abusive airline policies that passengers can do nothing about:
1. Fees shall be for features of a flight that are optional, such as meals or a second checked bag, rather than for items that you need on every flight. There shall be no extortionate fees for fixing a name typo or making a schedule change months ahead of time.
2. There shall be a minimum seat width and pitch, as determined by flight safety professionals;
3. All tickets which are non-refundable shall be transferable, with the cost limited to the above non-extortionate name change fee. A seat sold is a seat for which revenue has already been collected. Airlines will discover that no longer having to deal with special exceptions and notes from doctors is well worth the lost revenue from selling the same seat twice.
4. The auction buyback system for oversells shall not be capped or limited in any way. If you really want a seat for that deadheading crew member at the last minute, you have to find a pax willing to give up his seat at the market price.
5. For any ejection or denied-boarding of a passenger not coming under the oversell rule, the carrier must file a report with the FAA detailing the situation and attaching signed statements by all crew and passengers involved. No more ejecting a passenger because "somebody felt uneasy about this person."
6. Passengers shall have unlimited right to film or record confrontations that occur during a flight, with the stipulation that a copy be submitted as evidence with any report the airline has to file in (5).
7. Carriers shall be required to use real math, rather than 'airline math' in calculating rebates for downgrades from higher classes of service that a passenger paid for but which cannot be provided at flight time.
The effect of such a set of minimum service standards will be to push revenue from extra fees, etc. into the base fare. Good, because this is the one number on which airlines compete. The reason for policies like charging people $5000 for fixing a name typo is to pull standard features of a flight out of the base fare, making it look artificially low. If a decently hu,mane level of service adds 20% or so to the base, then we will still be better off. Less air rage and fewer instances of "I'll never fly with you again!"
Early adopters of anything are the folks who overpay for the chance to be the first users of something that everybody will be buying at sane prices a few years from now. Without such people, there would be no risk-taking and no innovation.
My town has a high percentage of chrono-Americans. In stores, the young nose rings in cashier positions all know me as being the only customer my age who uses Apple Pay.
Early implementations of anything need work. You as a practitioner should be part of the process of specifying electronic medical records interfaces that suit your type of practice. Work towards a world in which EMR interaction is a benefit to you, rather than being mostly for the benefit of ‘coding’ and billing.
We WILL have EMR. If you pull back into your burrow and insist on staying with quill and vellum, all it means is that you will have had no input into whatever EMR system is imposed on you.
Exactly. Our leftists are trying to fuzz away the distinction between insurgents and immigrants by painting every criticism of illegals as as being anti-immigrant.
Leftists hate America, but at the same time they want everyone in the world to have an automatic right to be American without having to become one.
Those sound like pretty good ideas, though I wonder if some universities would back off research if they didn't think there was potential patent profit there.
Publishing your paper on an open site has nothing to do with the patentability of your research. Open publication should be mandatory for any public-funded science.
When your doctor sends you to get blood drawn, those results come back to him as a fax. They are also sent via electronic data, but a shocking number of medical facilities still do everything by fax, and not because of anything having to do with the government.
And that test results page is packed with medically needed information that arrives as a goddamned image, as though it were a wedding picture. Someone in the doctor’s office has to sit down and transcribe that information into storable form. You better hope that person doesn’t miss a digit or transpose two fields.
More properly, an industry that still uses fax is doing things the old, inefficient way because it can’t be bothered to change. From legal protocols that use low-security handwritten signatures rather than PGP to stubborn old bastards in the medical world who won’t digitize, the fax users are a cavalcade of obsolescence.
Cows do not eat coal. Because the carbon that cows are belching now was pulled out of the atmosphere last year,â(TM)the cattle methane issue is, well, bullshit.
Actually American support for Irish terrorism was all a huge misunderstanding. People thought they were paying into their tax-deferred retirement plans.
You are making the same argument that creationists make when they claim that the anthropic principle is proof of divine intervention. What’s really happening is that we are naturally selected for the checmical makeup of our planet.
Because Europe’s poor refugees sit around getting welfare checks and making bombs. Poor refuges in the US pick lettuce. Farmers like hiring them because if they are not legal immigrants they won’t complain to OSHA about their working conditions.
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5) skip #5. It is already done by the Pilot. It is filed with the airlines.
Currently there is no passenger ejection reporting requirement. Most ejections are for valid cause, so filing a formal FAA report protects everyone in case of legal action. But at the same time it would subject the carrier to scrutiny if an ejection occurs because "A passenger took sick, so we put out a PA call for medical assistance, and this black woman stepped in who the flight attendant thought didn't look like a doctor" (Delta, just recently). If airlines knew that such actions could result in a walloping fine or even federal indictments of crew, the junk ejection problem would vanish.
What I'm aiming at is to define what a standard ticket should include a minimum. A few people can get by without checking a bag, but most people check one piece. Charging for the first checked bag motivates pax to haul everything on board, which is a huge time-wasting mess. Airlines will publicly bitch but privately be overjoyed to not have every passenger vainly cramming a kitchen sink into the overheads. It will speed up boarding.
It's true that a lot of overselling is caused by intentionally making the ticket rules, which are not negotiable and peculiarly not subject to competition, so restrictive that a lot of paid-for seats are simply abandoned. Transferability would cut down on this considerably, but oversales would still occur from time to time.
When I started flying, in the Golden Age of the early Seventies, reservations were freely changeable until flight time. Airlines saw an industry-average 8% no-show rate and used that figure as their rationale for making everything non-refundable.
Today's no-show rate is...the envelope please... TEN PERCENT. I am not making this up.
This is a quibble, but an understandable one. We ânavigateâ(TM) in the air and do âgeology â on the Moon. Why the sudden need for a neologism for earthquake?
The existing oversell auction takes care of this case, but it can break down when airlines stop raising their bids enough to voluntarily free up a seat. That was what led to the Dao dragging. They just picked this guy out at random and dragged him off.
My list is of course not exhaustive. The original family splitting problem is an example of something we could add.
Fixing intentional family split-ups should be part of a bill that gets rid of a number of abusive airline policies that passengers can do nothing about:
1. Fees shall be for features of a flight that are optional, such as meals or a second checked bag, rather than for items that you need on every flight. There shall be no extortionate fees for fixing a name typo or making a schedule change months ahead of time.
2. There shall be a minimum seat width and pitch, as determined by flight safety professionals;
3. All tickets which are non-refundable shall be transferable, with the cost limited to the above non-extortionate name change fee. A seat sold is a seat for which revenue has already been collected. Airlines will discover that no longer having to deal with special exceptions and notes from doctors is well worth the lost revenue from selling the same seat twice.
4. The auction buyback system for oversells shall not be capped or limited in any way. If you really want a seat for that deadheading crew member at the last minute, you have to find a pax willing to give up his seat at the market price.
5. For any ejection or denied-boarding of a passenger not coming under the oversell rule, the carrier must file a report with the FAA detailing the situation and attaching signed statements by all crew and passengers involved. No more ejecting a passenger because "somebody felt uneasy about this person."
6. Passengers shall have unlimited right to film or record confrontations that occur during a flight, with the stipulation that a copy be submitted as evidence with any report the airline has to file in (5).
7. Carriers shall be required to use real math, rather than 'airline math' in calculating rebates for downgrades from higher classes of service that a passenger paid for but which cannot be provided at flight time.
The effect of such a set of minimum service standards will be to push revenue from extra fees, etc. into the base fare. Good, because this is the one number on which airlines compete. The reason for policies like charging people $5000 for fixing a name typo is to pull standard features of a flight out of the base fare, making it look artificially low. If a decently hu,mane level of service adds 20% or so to the base, then we will still be better off. Less air rage and fewer instances of "I'll never fly with you again!"
Early adopters of anything are the folks who overpay for the chance to be the first users of something that everybody will be buying at sane prices a few years from now. Without such people, there would be no risk-taking and no innovation.
Let me guess. Your retirement fund got stuck with a bunch of GM shares.
My town has a high percentage of chrono-Americans. In stores, the young nose rings in cashier positions all know me as being the only customer my age who uses Apple Pay.
Will they have to have CONTAINS GMO tattoos?
Early implementations of anything need work. You as a practitioner should be part of the process of specifying electronic medical records interfaces that suit your type of practice. Work towards a world in which EMR interaction is a benefit to you, rather than being mostly for the benefit of ‘coding’ and billing.
We WILL have EMR. If you pull back into your burrow and insist on staying with quill and vellum, all it means is that you will have had no input into whatever EMR system is imposed on you.
Exactly. Our leftists are trying to fuzz away the distinction between insurgents and immigrants by painting every criticism of illegals as as being anti-immigrant.
Leftists hate America, but at the same time they want everyone in the world to have an automatic right to be American without having to become one.
I wonder how California would score, based on this criteria...
It’s a wealthy place. There are over three people in the state who can still afford a residential down payment.
Those sound like pretty good ideas, though I wonder if some universities would back off research if they didn't think there was potential patent profit there.
Publishing your paper on an open site has nothing to do with the patentability of your research. Open publication should be mandatory for any public-funded science.
When your doctor sends you to get blood drawn, those results come back to him as a fax. They are also sent via electronic data, but a shocking number of medical facilities still do everything by fax, and not because of anything having to do with the government.
And that test results page is packed with medically needed information that arrives as a goddamned image, as though it were a wedding picture. Someone in the doctor’s office has to sit down and transcribe that information into storable form. You better hope that person doesn’t miss a digit or transpose two fields.
More properly, an industry that still uses fax is doing things the old, inefficient way because it can’t be bothered to change. From legal protocols that use low-security handwritten signatures rather than PGP to stubborn old bastards in the medical world who won’t digitize, the fax users are a cavalcade of obsolescence.
Cows do not eat coal. Because the carbon that cows are belching now was pulled out of the atmosphere last year,â(TM)the cattle methane issue is, well, bullshit.
Actually American support for Irish terrorism was all a huge misunderstanding. People thought they were paying into their tax-deferred retirement plans.
You are making the same argument that creationists make when they claim that the anthropic principle is proof of divine intervention. What’s really happening is that we are naturally selected for the checmical makeup of our planet.
Because Europe’s poor refugees sit around getting welfare checks and making bombs. Poor refuges in the US pick lettuce. Farmers like hiring them because if they are not legal immigrants they won’t complain to OSHA about their working conditions.
But can it scale in the opposite direction? Being able to build a small silent camera drone would be ideal for intelligence and surveillance.
Why yes. Give your ditch digger a backhoe, and that just enables you to exploit him for more work.
If you’re going to be a socialite, at least don’t be a Luddite socialist. That just assures that your ideas will never be tried out in a real country.
When you call something a 'starship' it should actually be, you know, a starship.
Seriously, you Americans sound like you're seconds away from dressing in bomb belts and raping children, when you talk like that.
Those are jobs you Europeans leave to the refugees.
It's just VOCs and noxious hydrocarbon vapors.
That's why Americans are buying this:
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