{"id":7236,"date":"2016-02-15T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2016-02-14T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:16:48","slug":"another-plea-for-legible-flight-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/another-plea-for-legible-flight-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Plea for Legible Flight Reservations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Plea for Legible Flight Reservations
\nGrrrr!
\nWe’ve been at this whole commercial flight thing for about a hundred years. You would think that the airlines would be able to create a simple, clear flight plan for me. EVERY trip I have made for the last 20 years I have had to translate their gobbly-gook flight reservation into something legible. The relevant data is always the same. Could someone in the airline industry please recognize this? Give me a calendar item that I can copy and paste into my life!<\/p>\n

Here is what I put in my calendar. Short. Readable. Useful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flight Ref: XXXX<\/p>\n

Monday November 21st
\ndepart SFO at 10:35am on AA flight 556
\n  arrive Chicago ORD at 4:55pm
\ndepart Chicago ORD 8:30pm on AA flight 4308
\n  arrive Nashville 10:00pm<\/p>\n

Friday November 25th
\ndepart Nashville 4:30pm on AA flight 661
\n  arrive Dallas DFW at 6:40pm
\ndepart Dallas DFW at 9:20pm on AA flight 1575
\n  arrive SFO at 11:05pm <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and here is what American Airlines sent me. It is freaking impossible to read. Sure it contains all<\/strong> the relevant data but I challenge you to understand my flight info in less than 5 minutes!<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t need to be like this. Make it simple. Make it say what it needs to say. Then put the nitty gritty details at the bottom or something. Bonus points awarded if they put a “Add to Google Calendar” icon next to the reservation so I don’t even have to copy-paste. But hey…<\/p>\n

I originally mentioned<\/a> this in 2011 and it burns my buns every time I fly that flight reservations are still<\/strong> universally impossible to read. I use parts of this blog post as a template before I fly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Plea for Legible Flight Reservations Grrrr! We’ve been at this whole commercial flight thing for about a hundred years. You would think that the airlines would be able to create a simple, clear flight plan for me. EVERY trip I have made for the last 20 years I have had to translate their gobbly-gook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}