Having lived in London for a while now, I find myself preferring the tube lines overlaid on a physical map, so that you can reason better about how to get where you want to go (obviously supplemented heavily by Citymapper and Google maps).
I guess that when your abstraction is at the level of start station and end station, that is where the value of the tube map is.
Is this OS specific? It would be good to have more details on the mechanism this app is using. Presumably this can only scan media that is stored outside of apps?
Given the reason that airlines employ overselling, you would have to expect that it would impact the airline profitability, which could in theory lead to an increase in ticket prices. The bet SWA is making is that the revenue gain from overbooking is smaller than the consequential losses from bad publicity. Just think about the downside to United based on their share price alone, and now the increased focus that is on the 'good conduct' w.r.t bumping passengers in the light of it.
The maths of overbooking is that if you have 100 bookings on a 100 seater flight and 97 passengers show up then perhaps you could have sold 103 tickets and still not have to bump anyone. In this case you have increased revenue by 3% without an increase in costs. This can either manifest itself in an increased profit or, on a competitive route, lower ticket prices.
Of course, there will be variations in the number of people who show up and this can lead to more passengers arriving at the airport than there are seats on the plane. In this case, there is a cost to the airline, and perhaps in this big optimisation problem there are some airlines that see a bigger payoff in overbooking and bumping than avoiding overselling and minimising bumping.
I don't know about budget airlines, but full service you might expect somewhere in the region of 5% overselling. For budget, I would expect it to be higher as tickets are cheaper so passengers have less to lose by not showing up.
Nonetheless, even if it were a 1-2% increase in revenue, it would have a much higher impact on profitability. On a budget route, you could have $500 profit per flight, say a couple of dollars per passenger. Every extra ticket that gets sold that the airline doesn't have to pay costs for is a big deal, and part of the optimisations that allow airlines to offer lower fares.
I don't want to fly on an airline with profit margins so slim. If a few hundred dollars one way or another is all that matters, I don't want to think about the decisions going on behind the scenes. These are extraordinarily expensive machines filled with hundreds of very human humans. You need more room for contingencies. I'd rather pay a few dollars more if that meant flying on a plane that wasn't constantly skirting the edge of profitability, one where employees have room to take reasonable and safe decisions.
>I don't want to fly on an airline with profit margins so slim.
You should probably consider switching to Greyhound in that case. The last few years have generally been good ones for commercial aviation but, historically, the industry lost money as whole since its inception.
One of the problems is that you may be willing to pay a few dollars more but most will just go with whatever is cheapest.
Who gives a shit? It is almost always Americans making such statements, obsessed as they are about being number one. If Chine gets richer and more technologically advance that would be good for them and good for us westerners. It is not a zero sum game.
Although to be realistic I don't think China will ever outcompete the US. Not because I don't want them to, but simply because so many fundamentals count in Americas favor and against China. China is facing a demographic catastrophe. The US can easily grow its population with immigration and has plenty of land and natural resources to do so.
Strongly disagree. The view on the ground in China is great. Almost everyone has their material needs exceeded, many sectors of infrastructure are second to none, education and internationalization of tastes is increasing, and the society is generally very safe. E-vehicles and e-commerce are everywhere. Rent a bicycle for nothing. Visit the tropics, Himalayas, desert or snow with a cheap domestic flight. Cuisine is arguably the most extensive in the world. Mobile payments are ubiquitous. Internet is cheap to free and literally you can get a signal anywhere. Yes, of course like anywhere it's not perfect, but it's really a far cry from America's stagnant and elitist education system, crumbling or monopolistically privatized infrastructure (eg. transport, medicine), and widespread opiate, gun and race problems.
(FYI: minimum wage in most Chinese cities for an unskilled foreigner with any kind of get up and go is 200CNY/hr (~USD$28/hr) these days... a great many western workers are on less than half of that, and would do very well to migrate.)
so many fundamentals count in Americas favor
I would like to hear what these are supposed to be. Having elite universities doesn't count if you rent them out to all comers, default English doesn't count if more people speak it overseas, VC doesn't count if it's easier to get elsewhere, and land isn't needed if your population is already happy to urbanize with extreme density. China owns the world's supply chain and manufacturing, has a highly efficient centralized form of government that can get huge or long term projects done without recourse to political terms, and leads the world in output and deployment scale of renewable energy systems (hydro, solar), modern transport infrastructure, robotics, internet, mobile payment and e-vehicles. Those are some pretty big fundamentals, too. From my perspective all the US really has are systemic global financial and communications surveillance capabilities and a big fat army. Their diplomatic trajectory is nothing to write home about, either.
you didn't refute that. you just said "life on the ground today is good." That's why its called a cliff. Things are pretty good right up to the moment you fall off.
>FYI: minimum wage in most Chinese cities for an unskilled foreigner with any kind of get up and go is 200CNY/hr
But that's not the same thing as minimum wage. Many many Chinese people earn less than that. When you're a Chinese person you can't just hit up your mate on wechat for some bullshit English teaching job whenever you want beer money.
There's really no need to refute a statement which goes directly against sustained personal observation, especially when it is made without producing any actual evidence.
Obviously not everyone earns the same, then again local people tend to have more money than even wealthy foreigners at the high end, and at the low end at least tend to benefit from free housing, familial support networks, and do not have to fund international travel to maintain ties to home.
Furthermore, downvoting because you don't agree with someone is considered bad form.
> (FYI: minimum wage in most Chinese cities for an unskilled foreigner with any kind of get up and go is 200CNY/hr (~USD$28/hr) these days... a great many western workers are on less than half of that, and would do very well to migrate.)
Quoting wages is meaningless if you don't also mention cost of living.
Depends on location and expectations, generally speaking in second or third tier cities usually 5000/month outgoings is comfortable, ie. breakeven from 25 hours/month (6 hours/week).
Nothing wrong with worrying and wanting your home country to be the best either. Worrying leads to motivation which leads to competition which benefits everyone.
> Who gives a shit? It is almost always Americans making such statements, obsessed as they are about being number one.
Are you guys seriously not getting the joke? I don't usually buy into the stereotype that Hacker News is utterly humorless, but you're not making it easy.
Surely the force of the leak is very small compared to the size of the station, but if it had been leaking for a while the change could add up.