Originally Posted by
jsloan
I mean, you're not really being fair. United is an airline. You probably wouldn't use a bank's authentication system that didn't work while you were actually on the bank premises.
No, you're not being fair; you cherry picked the bank example. Let's look at the others you conveniently overlooked. To wit, I'm
never on the premises of Google or Apple, or T. Rowe Price, or TurboTax, or UTC, or Geico, or the U.S. Treasury, etc.,
yet I might want to access any of their websites while aboard a flight and be unable to -- which I'm fine with. I nevertheless want 2FA all the other time. What's really "unfair," as you put it, is trying to excuse United's lack of 2FA because of some hours spent inflight versus the 8760 hours in every year. But do keep trying.