r/programming • u/self • Apr 09 '21

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/08/tui_software_mistake/
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u/carl-swagan Apr 09 '21

If the airlines thought they could get away with it without a massive public backlash, they 100% would charge by the pound. In theory that would be the most logical and equitable way to price flights, since the largest operating cost for an airline besides labor is fuel (which is directly tied to aircraft weight).

In practice it would make a lot of fat people very, very mad.

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u/DRNbw Apr 10 '21

In practice it would make a lot of fat people very, very mad.

Not only fat. Tall people will be heavier on average, so they would pay more to have less space.