Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots

Re:Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty... by kjhughes on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:48PM (#29886727)

Regulation is as challenging as adding features to complex software systems. Achieving the desired outcome without causing any undesired consequences is very hard.

In some ways, it's even harder than adapting complex software systems: At least software systems don't commonly consist of subsystems with independent, self-interest-seeking goal structures that lobby you during design for features they favor or exploit latent defects post-deployment.

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Re:Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty... by Gigachad on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:55PM (#29886789)

And in software you can test the change locally rather than having to pitch an untested idea to the world and run the test live.

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Re:Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty... by PeopleB4Cars on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:52PM (#29887308)

You can do that in regulation too, it's called a pilot program

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Re:Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty... by bcrosby95 on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:51PM (#29887712)

I don't know if this is a joke, but working at large software organizations with many independent teams is a lot like what you just described.

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Re:Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty... by quantified on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @02:05AM (#29888473)

Both always need to be debugged in production with real participants and don’t get patches quickly enough.

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