razzberryman

Paying for a flight and not boarding is way more ethical than the Airline selling you a seat that doesn't exist (overselling is super common... ever hear them ask for volunteers to take a later flight in exchange for a voucher? That means they sold seats that didn't exist).

Of course, the airline thinks it's fine when it is pulling the switcheroo but they get pissed when you do it back to them. As long as the FAA allows them to oversell flights, they should allow passengers to use hidden city fare discounts... it's only fare.

> after all its important in an emergency to know who is really on the plane, and people who get off early are putting first responders in harms way as they will go looking for people who aren't actually on the plane

They generally do a new itinerary for each new flight, so they should know that person X isn't on the flight. Now, I can understand that they'd be annoyed if they were holding the plane knowing that person X had arrived at that airport and should be nearby. But, anybody could simply tell the check in desk they won't be flying on that flight (as a courtesy).

I hadn't heard of this site until the airlines tried to shut it down. Nice job airlines! Hopefully Zaman can hang in there.

Very nice. If you want to reduce the shadows for sorting browns, try backlighting the chute so that shadows can't appear on it. Basically, turn the chute into a photography light box.

They should run their support system on AWS since they're likely to get a lot of ticket requests if Azure is down. :)

> I use a USB ThinkPad keyboard, so my mouse is on home row, not off to the side.

I switched a tenkeyless keyboard for the same reason... my mouse is now a lot closer to the center of my body and this has reduced shoulder strain immensely.