Hall of Rants: Whats the Most Random and Pathetic Thing You Can Complain About?
Jul 14, 2016, 11:27 pm
#212
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I've found that in the instances when I find someone already in my seat, most often they're offering me something I don't want and are going to be stubborn about getting up and moving. I think it's something to do with the types of personalities that put themselves in such a situation.
Jul 15, 2016, 2:32 am
#213
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I have got to agree with the anti-alcohol folks.
People getting in the Skyclub at 8-9am hanging around the bar or getting a drink early in the morning. What the heck is wrong with you people.
We get it, the drinks are free but it really isn't that big of a deal, I promise you.
People getting in the Skyclub at 8-9am hanging around the bar or getting a drink early in the morning. What the heck is wrong with you people.
We get it, the drinks are free but it really isn't that big of a deal, I promise you.
Poor you, you will get over it.
Nothing wrong with a little 'Frühschoppen' & lots of international pax, pax with a different body clock, it's 8PM somewhere.
Jul 15, 2016, 2:39 am
#214
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I've found that in the instances when I find someone already in my seat, most often they're offering me something I don't want and are going to be stubborn about getting up and moving. I think it's something to do with the types of personalities that put themselves in such a situation.
(The other scenario that occasionally plays out is I'll check someone in at the counter, nothing unusual. Then I'm at the gate and the same person says the ticket counter agent who checked him/her in promised X.)
Jul 15, 2016, 5:53 am
#215
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I agree. One time when I was about to close the door, the FA said there was a seating problem so I went to check it out. The poacher actually told me the GA said he couldn't help me... I was the only GA and he never talked to me at all! It's always fun when the customer talks or complains about me not knowing it's me.
(The other scenario that occasionally plays out is I'll check someone in at the counter, nothing unusual. Then I'm at the gate and the same person says the ticket counter agent who checked him/her in promised X.)
(The other scenario that occasionally plays out is I'll check someone in at the counter, nothing unusual. Then I'm at the gate and the same person says the ticket counter agent who checked him/her in promised X.)
One of the things I actually love (in an admittedly weird way) about getting to some of the smaller stations is seeing the same faces at the counter and gate (and sometimes on the ramp!).
I've no idea if employees like that setup or not, but as an operations guy it's fascinating to watch in action.
Jul 15, 2016, 7:43 am
#216
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I use flightaware, more accurate and it shows the gate whe DL doesn't. And it will show inbound aircraft for the last month.
Why not you, DL IT?
Jul 15, 2016, 7:50 am
#217
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You can find the inbound on the app, but only under flight status. You'd think that DL IT could make that easier to access either on the app or at DL.com
Jul 17, 2016, 7:32 pm
#218
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Why does Delta have to stick w/ crappy GoGo. Overpriced, congested, slow service ripe in the air.
Oh, you wanted speed? Well, there's gonna' be latency then. So, have fun.
Oh, you wanted speed? Well, there's gonna' be latency then. So, have fun.
Jul 17, 2016, 7:34 pm
#219
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Jul 17, 2016, 7:44 pm
#220
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Oh and to the rest of you in air ISPs, thanks for at least letting me watch Netflix in somewhat decent minimally stutter-ey quality.
I volunteer at a host and remotely work with game servers, no excuse for the high latency. None.
Jul 17, 2016, 7:45 pm
#221
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Eh, I don't mind the high latency at all. Not like I'm playing multiplayer games where it matters; Hardly pointless.. I find Netflix and HBO go actually stream rather well over the Ku links, and big files suck down no problem at all.
Jul 17, 2016, 7:57 pm
#222
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Also, if you've noticed, in the rear of Y performance can be a little more sad. Had a real sucky experience on my last trip from DCA, ended up getting assigned near the dead back. WiFi for our subset of the plane failed to work whatsoever. We'll just call it, T-Mobile inspired peak traffic
*Full disclosure: I find Pokemon Go almost as boring as taking a standardized test; Or having to go over at least 100 lines of code spread over several pages of a website simply to replace URLs (hint, hint..)
Last edited by TheLifeOfA_NKCM; Jul 17, 2016 at 8:12 pm Reason: so this sorta makes sense. Hours and hours of coding JUST for URLs and still have more to do. Ugh..
Jul 18, 2016, 7:39 am
#223
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5-7mbps? Pfft, that's slow as it is. Not even broadband speed. Get back to me when it's 25 and the latency is below 100ms. Square up Gogo.
Oh and to the rest of you in air ISPs, thanks for at least letting me watch Netflix in somewhat decent minimally stutter-ey quality.
I volunteer at a host and remotely work with game servers, no excuse for the high latency. None.
Oh and to the rest of you in air ISPs, thanks for at least letting me watch Netflix in somewhat decent minimally stutter-ey quality.
I volunteer at a host and remotely work with game servers, no excuse for the high latency. None.
Jul 18, 2016, 10:44 am
#224
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Latency over satellite is a fact of life. At 26,000 miles above the earth that is about 104,000 miles for a trip to the remote destination and back. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second so it is over 500 ms just to make the trip. Add in the additional time for the electronics and you'll never get under 30 ms times.
Anyhow, you're right. As it stands satellite is frankly the only practical option for high speed and capacity in flight wifi, and the fact that it can pull up to 70mbps per plane is quite impressive from where we have came from in the last eight years. So latency is a price to pay especially for the added range and this applies to ground-comm to, like in rural under-served areas.
It's just fun every now and then to not look at things from a black and white pragmatic view, that I usually do, but instead cheeky and short sighted.
It's called "pathetic complaints" for a reason. We can live with it.. Just a little disappointing.
Jul 18, 2016, 10:56 am
#225
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Latency over satellite is a fact of life. At 26,000 miles above the earth that is about 104,000 miles for a trip to the remote destination and back. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second so it is over 500 ms just to make the trip. Add in the additional time for the electronics and you'll never get under 30 ms times.
