Re:'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfa...
by Symbiote on Sunday February 23, 2025 @06:48AM
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I think it was Kyiv's airport (so I can't check) but their flight times were not all rounded to the nearest 10 minutes.
I liked this, as finding the single 12:34 flight was much quicker than looking at the 4+ flights all with "12:30" at another airport, where on the display each line is rotating between multiple flight numbers, airlines and languages.
Personally, even if I'm using an app I still look at the screens to check. A notification might not have been sent, or my phone might have dropped off the airport wifi leaving me with no connection, or roaming might have stopped working.
That’s just it, even if I didn’t have lounge access, I would be hanging out at a restaurant or a bar that isn’t near the gate. I would have to be constantly looking on the board with all of the flights. ATL has 192 gates spread across seven concourses and two terminals.
> pull because I don’t sit snd stare at the phone all the time. Phone stays in the pocket
Of course I have an alarm set for when I need to start heading toward my gate. But gate changes and when it’s time to board are both push notifications to both my phone and my watch.
> There are no screens and announcements at the lounge
2100 flights take off per day from ATL. That’s over 100 flights an hour - I think there are at least 6 hours a day where no flights take off. They explicitly say they don’t make announcements.
This goes back to do you really want to be searching for your flight on a board with that many flights?
> You went to the airport to fly somewhere, not shopping or a dinner for two, no
If you either get to the airport early to avoid rush hour or have a long layover, you probably will end up having a meal or drinks while you wait. We had a four hour layover at LAX last week.