Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Airline Industry’s Problem with Absolutely Ancient IT" video.

  1. As someone who is currently researching for ways to get from a mid sized city and a capital city to a small town in a different state via different regional airports, this videos talks A LOT to my experience. I am having to go one by one option of flights and mapping the distance from the airports to the town and building up an entire spreadsheet with prices, distances, connection wait times, time of departure, arrival, optimal days of the week, plus a whole ton of other data just to figure out what are the better options given a ton of different factors. I feel that there should be ways of doing this better and that it seems something trivial for computer software to do, but there simply is nothing that can really do this, at least not that I know of in my country. You'd need a travel agent working perhaps a couple of days or so to get there, and I'm not sure if it would really result in optimal routes, and I wouldn't be able to see the process that they used to get to the conclusion, so for trips my family needs to make to visit relatives, I decided to go all in and figure it out by myself. The whole thing is so confusing that basically, in order not to deal with this whole mess, what some people in the family has been doing is just endure the bus or car trip, even when it takes almost a full day to get to the destination whereas a combined flight plus bus or rental car trip could be a 4hr journey. I often throw this down to just plan maliciousness.... it's hard to figure things out because if you have an emergency and pass it off for the airline to solve, they'll shove you the most absurd prices possible and sustain the business that way. Which you know, might be a component part of why these systems haven't been updated to this day. But it seems it's also largely due to just plain incompetence. Using outdated tools not made to handle current reality of the sector.
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