News and notes from around the interweb:
- Uber admits bribing police in Indonesia as one does….
Separately London says it won’t renew Uber’s license to operate which expires at the end of the month. They have 21 days to appeal during which time they can continue business.
- Another bug in Delta’s award search
- How in the world did I miss this a week ago? OTG will open a sushi restaurant at Newark with fish flown in on United’s Tokyo – Newark flight from Tsukiji Fish Market. There’s a lot of fish at that market, the source alone doesn’t make it good, and the sushi chefs will matter (and their skills will presumably be limited by airport constraints like knives chained to the wall).
- Turkish Airlines is ordering 40 Boeing 787s. One Mile at a Time tries to make sense of what it means for the airline. Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan has become a dictator, but he’s taken efforts to ingratiate himself to the U.S. administration and the President praises him. The order announcement coincided with his meeting with Trump, which should explain a lot about the decision.
- British Airways joins the bidding for airberlin’s carcass
- I can’t tell you how much I don’t want this credit card.
- Citi now allows you to add authorized cardmembers to a credit card account via their app. Not a huge thing in itself, but for a bank not known for its technology this is an example of meeting customers where they are and how they prefer to interact.
OTG is horrendously overpriced and mediocre (a great combo) at EWR so at least now maybe it will be just overpriced and good
I work in the software world, the DL sorting issue is clearly not a bug. There’s nothing broken. Rules surrounding how the dev team coded the sort of flights is where the problem lies, and someone knowingly decided that sorting by taxes/fees (actual cost) was the correct way to sort (or even better is if there is a defined business rule about what determines ‘cost’ of a ticket).
I’m not a fan of DL but calling this a ‘bug’ is incorrect. I’d call this a future enhancement request of the UI/UX team…
Not a bug though?
I do not understand whats wrong with UBER
@sice/Sam Krik – I tend to use “bug” and “quirk” interchangeably, although you’re right that “bug” has a more specific meaning when you’re talking about coding a webpage. Still, it seemed odd enough that it was worth pointing out.
@jordan It is all about how one sees it. Not that we need to make a perfect statement everytime.