Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Airlines WEIGHT SHAMING?! And TUI flight 7226 Serious Incident, Explained." video.

11:40 As a software developer, I would be really unhappy to find out that a piece of untested software went into production. Especially in something as important as aviation. If you don't have QA people to verify the software, you simply do not upgrade the systems on the fly! If you plan upgrading the software during the weekends, you must have QA people working during the weekeds, too. Also, a well running software teams should be running automated regression tests. That is, for every bugfix you ever implement, you write an automated test that verifies that the fix still works and there's no regression on that part. This is because many software bugs are result of developer misunderstanding the system and once a single misunderstanding has happened in some part of the system, the changes are pretty high that some another developer will have similar misunderstanding in the future.
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@DuRoehre90210 I would guess Y2K happened so long ago that junior developers have born only later. If they are not interested in ancient history as a hobby, Y2K doesn't ring a bell for them.
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14:20 Were the pilots ever told about the Ms vs Miss issue and system incorrectly computing females as children as a result? I would assume no, because otherwise the pilots would have probably guessed that there were not suddenly much more children in the cabin than expected.
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I would really love that a passager would be given a weight budget (e.g. 100 kg) for the trip. If you weight 80 kg, you can carry 20 kg of luggage for free. If you weight 60 kg, you can carray 40 kg for free. And if you weight 100 kg, no get no luggage for free. That would be totally fair for everybody and it would be better for the companies, too, because they would know the exact weight of the airplane.
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