Tag: AAdvantage

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    Best airline sandwiches.

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    Business class box, AMS to LCY.

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  • There is wide agreement that AMS<->LCY is the perfect flight.

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  • A think tool

    A think tool

    Giving AI an inner-voice with Model Context Protocol I separated out a “think tool” from my agentic D&D project this week. The think tool is stupidly simple: all it does it echo back whatever the AI sends it. The original write-up from Anthropic makes it seems a little more mystical, but it doesn’t take long…

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  • United credits tech and staff investments for rising NPS scores – A rare example of an enterprise praising better user experience for helping the business. // “to create an airline that customers choose to fly, we need to deliver a great customer experience.”

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  • Travel Spending On Track To Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels By End Of 2024 – ”Global travel spending is roaring back and will fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024, surpassing $2 trillion.”

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  • What connected-car services are consumers willing to pay for? – There’s some fun stated-preferences versus revealed preferences in there.

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  • A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode

    A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode

    Presentations are just docs that were printed wrong Most presentation advice focuses on actual event of a speaker giving the presentation. In conference setting, you’re informing, making a point, and, hopefully, entertaining. In a corporate setting, the actual delivery of the presentation is not the primary purpose of a presentation. Instead, a presentation is used…

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  • Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site

    “According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across the whole platform at 2–3 times the industry average.” That means massive increases to their revenue and bottom line.” How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site https://blog.usejournal.com/how-booking-com-a-b-tests-ten-novenonagintillion-versions-of-its-site-25fc3a9e875b via Instapaper Source: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site

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  • Link: Amazon pushes further into insurance with its latest investment

    “Amazon’s Indian venture is probably a springboard for a move towards more established markets. India is some way away from Amazon’s key US and European markets, suggesting that it’s using India as a test lab for expanding its insurance operations. However, Amazon’s decision to flex its insurance muscles in India is probably also down to…

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  • Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue

    Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express partnership will yield $4 billion in revenue per year by 2021, rising by more than $300 million annually until then. Those sums translate to a very high margin of profit, Delta executives have acknowledged, but they’ve decline to specify further.…

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  • Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse

    It’s nice how they turn it around at the end. Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse

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  • A long wait for a scanning machine can induce many of us to start asking ourselves if we have perhaps after all left home with an explosive device hidden in our case, or unwittingly submitted to a months-long terrorist training course. A Week at the Airport, Alain de Botton

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  • “You guys keep asking about that [the IPO] . . . we try to slow down. I don’t think we could move any faster, I don’t think we feel any extra impetus to move faster,” Mr Cannon-Brookes said “There is no time in the future by which it has to be done, it could never happen, we…

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