Also, it’s not like viewing is mandatory.

Your point is brought up in the article...

Some websites ask you to turn off your ad blocker. So you whitelist the site, but it still detects the adblocker and blocks your views... ARGH!

Braking at the wrong place in turns is a big one for me. You see it all the time. A driver enters the corner too fast (but still easily within the handling envelope of the car), then brakes a third in, further destabilising the car. On the brakes all the way out of the corner, then accelerate hard.

In Sweden lights on all the time is the law.

a huge hanger

Lots of small objects bumping into each other in Earth’s orbit, you say?

Ewwwww.

The infamous “putty” colour. Gross...

This. After years of nagging, my kids have learned that we don’t leave food lying around and we wipe down surfaces that have crumbs and such.

Roster planning is very finicky. A few weather delays and an unexpected technical issue throws it all out of whack. Which is why airlines need the flexibility of crews on standby and the capacity to position them.

True, but the effect is really the same. If United had been able to predict that the crew had to position, then they might have sold 4 fewer seats.

The developments you speak of are already happening. Ryanair, EasyJet, Norwegian and so forth drove down prices in Europe over a decade ago. British Airways and the like responded with cheaper prices on short haul, lower level of “basic” service, but better connections, better loyalty programs and better lounges than…

You make good points.

The needed to free up 4 seats for repositioning crew. Standby travelers would not have made it on.

It depends. If the ticket is non-refundable and they simply miss their flight, the company keeps the money. Or if they confirm a refundable ticket and don’t show.

Because technically you didn’t pay to fly on that flight, exactly. You paid to be carried to your destination to the best ability of the airline on said date and time and so forth. Ok it’s not exactly like that but the legal verbiage is pretty convoluted.

It’s not “some flights are oversold on purpose”. It’s “a vast number of flights are oversold on purpose”. And you can bet the airlines come out ahead from the practice.

They were not non-rev. They were positioning crew.

It is possible that a car is not a permitted method of positioning as per the crew’s contract. Plus rest time regulations come into play.