Sep 9, 2016, 9:35 pm
Last edit by: jaysona
Update: 14-Jan 2016, 00:50
The old website is in the process of being "retired"
Leaving the below here for now for the sake of posterity and reference.
Most of the old website URLs now redirect to the new "beta" website.
The old website is in the process of being "retired"
Leaving the below here for now for the sake of posterity and reference.
Accessing the "old" website.
At the moment (09-Sep-2016) accessing the old and functional website is still possible.
The procedure to access the old website requires a few steps.
1. Clear all aircanada.com related cookies and browser cache.
2. Go to this URL. https://www.aircanada.com/en/go-beta.html
3. Click on book travel Button at the top left of the screen.
Alternatively for some clicking on one the following links will work for some as well.
https://www.aircanada.com/aco/flights.do or;
https://www.aircanada.com/en/home.ht...ialSignon=true
"A digital transformation underway at Air Canada is reshaping the customer experience in almost every way"
At the moment (09-Sep-2016) accessing the old and functional website is still possible.
The procedure to access the old website requires a few steps.
1. Clear all aircanada.com related cookies and browser cache.
2. Go to this URL. https://www.aircanada.com/en/go-beta.html
3. Click on book travel Button at the top left of the screen.
Alternatively for some clicking on one the following links will work for some as well.
https://www.aircanada.com/aco/flights.do or;
https://www.aircanada.com/en/home.ht...ialSignon=true
"A digital transformation underway at Air Canada is reshaping the customer experience in almost every way"
New Air Canada Website!
Aug 19, 2016, 3:47 pm
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Just looking at some random dates in relation to another thread and noticed that the timeout/click to continue button no longer works. Went into the console to remove it (no longer as easy as with the old site) and it's chock full of well... all the stuff you'd expect to see in a beta site.
Including a ton of (ajax I imagine) post requests to https://beta.aircanada.com/TealeafTarget.php
So it looks like their backend is PHP. Wow. TealeafTarget, well a quick search indicates it might be something IBM does.
Oh, and they have this: console.log("I tjssj").
This is the stuff I'd remove before going outside my local environment. Let alone into Live.
I imagine the eUpgrade site will be "upgraded" soon. At which point, evidence indicates one will no longer be able to request upgrades.
Including a ton of (ajax I imagine) post requests to https://beta.aircanada.com/TealeafTarget.php
So it looks like their backend is PHP. Wow. TealeafTarget, well a quick search indicates it might be something IBM does.
Oh, and they have this: console.log("I tjssj").
This is the stuff I'd remove before going outside my local environment. Let alone into Live.
I imagine the eUpgrade site will be "upgraded" soon. At which point, evidence indicates one will no longer be able to request upgrades.
Aug 19, 2016, 3:53 pm
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Aug 19, 2016, 4:05 pm
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Offer Lise early retirement and replace her IT management team. Work on getting the old site fully functional (e.g. proper multi-city bookings and more) and scrap the development of the new site!
Aug 19, 2016, 4:13 pm
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Just re-read the last 6 pages of this thread. Great comedic talent here. Great suggestions as well.
Meanwhile, over at AC, it seems they launch the website Prematurely, for the SECOND time.
You'd think they should have ran the beta of the beta by the team here at AC FT Central, you know, to work the bugs out.
Oh never mind.
Meanwhile, over at AC, it seems they launch the website Prematurely, for the SECOND time.
You'd think they should have ran the beta of the beta by the team here at AC FT Central, you know, to work the bugs out.
Oh never mind.
Aug 19, 2016, 4:14 pm
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The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
Aug 19, 2016, 4:26 pm
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There's nothing wrong with Lise. It's all the people below her that suck, or perhaps IBM (I guess the Toronto/Markham office? Need to keep the hair that clogs the brain drain busy...) I don't think any CIO/CTO would have the balls to pull the plug on that.
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
It's bloated
It's slow
I'm sure some people think it's pretty though
Aug 19, 2016, 4:35 pm
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Aug 19, 2016, 4:55 pm
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There's nothing wrong with Lise. It's all the people below her that suck, or perhaps IBM (I guess the Toronto/Markham office? Need to keep the hair that clogs the brain drain busy...) I don't think any CIO/CTO would have the balls to pull the plug on that.
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
Aug 19, 2016, 9:13 pm
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There's nothing wrong with Lise. It's all the people below her that suck, or perhaps IBM (I guess the Toronto/Markham office? Need to keep the hair that clogs the brain drain busy...) I don't think any CIO/CTO would have the balls to pull the plug on that.
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
The UX doesn't bother me. The functionality doesn't seem much different from before. What's all the noise here?
Aug 20, 2016, 12:54 am
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The Mytical Man Month
40 years old, and still spot on.
Aug 20, 2016, 5:51 am
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But haven't we all seen this in our other lives?
The Mytical Man Month
40 years old, and still spot on.
The Mytical Man Month
40 years old, and still spot on.
“The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Aug 20, 2016, 8:44 am
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