{"id":827,"date":"2018-05-25T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2018-05-28T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T06:41:54","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-21-25-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 21 \u2013 25 May"},"content":{"rendered":"Monday <\/strong>got off to a great start this week with the news that easyJet is now offering an app called LuckyTrip<\/a> on its own app.\u00a0 Of course they did not just announce this, they were \u2018excited\u2019.\u00a0 Why are people always so excited about what is, let\u2019s face it, a commercial transaction?\u00a0 Notwithstanding the excitement, it turns out that LuckyTrip is the lucky dip of travel planners.\u00a0 Feed in what sort of holiday you want and it tells you one interchangeable holiday destination that might work.\u00a0 Once, passengers booked flights to go to places.\u00a0 Now the passengers are being told by the airline where to fly \u2013 be sure that it will not be recommending flights that do not need filling in accordance with easyJet\u2019s targets.\r\n\r\nBut as is so often the case, once the theme is set \u2013 this week, random chance \u2013 it tends to dominate the week.\u00a0 So it was no surprise on Tuesday<\/strong> that Norwegian, itself subject to a number of putative takeover bids that are generating a certain amount of heat, hit back at easyJet with an app that selects destinations by temperature<\/a>.\u00a0 If there is anything more random than the weather on any particular day in the future \u2013 in the case the temperature on your day of departure \u2013 it is hard to think of it.\r\n\r\nThe good folk at Solar Impulse watch the weather very closely.\u00a0 Now they are trying to monetise their environmental good standing.\u00a0 On Wednesday<\/strong> they set themselves a challenge<\/a> to find 1,000 solutions, sorry #1000solutions \u2018that protect the environment in a profitable way\u2019.\u00a0 Profitable for the user of the solution, presumably.\u00a0 The environment profits regardless of the revenue to cost ratio.\u00a0 Solar Impulse is also going to give the solutions a good housekeeping seal of approval, with an \u2018Efficient Solution Label\u2019 that can be attached to the solution.\u00a0 The focus on the solutions being profitable is interesting from an organisation that flew a tiny two-seat aircraft around the world \u2013 that was very environmentally friendly, but not so profitable.\u00a0 No label for them.\r\n\r\nBy Thursday<\/strong> it was almost impossible to move with the number of GDPR emails flying around asking for consent to continue sending emails.\u00a0 It was a glorious moment to clean up one\u2019s in-box, to avoid those seemingly random emails that clutter up in-boxes around the world.\u00a0 All that said, we are grateful for those of you that consented to continue to hear from us.\u00a0 Our content may be random, but our email distribution is not.\r\n\r\nWhich brought us to the sunny uplands of the new email free, or at least reduced, world.\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, when some of those emails stopped arriving, we had time to contemplate more deliberate, more thoughtful things \u2013 so why not commission a story to help fill in time when you are at an airport.\u00a0 If you are at La Guardia, it is perfectly possible<\/a>.\u00a0 There are writers in residence, who will work with you to create a short story.\u00a0 The writers are being paid what can only be described as a small stipend, almost enough to cover the cost of the mandatory garret struggling writers live in.\u00a0 The stories are delivered by phone when the commissioning passenger\u2019s aircraft lands at its destination.\u00a0 Who knows, that destination may have been randomly selected.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday got off to a great start this week with the news that easyJet is now offering an app called LuckyTrip on its own app.\u00a0 Of course they did not just announce this, they were \u2018excited\u2019.\u00a0 Why are people always so excited about what is, let\u2019s face it, a commercial transaction?\u00a0 Notwithstanding the excitement, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-climate-change","category-low-cost-carriers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}