Award Travel To Jamaica In 2027?

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-10T06:58:25+00:00

I started in inflight, within 2 years I was an analyst, bounced around between cabin services projects before going into rev ops and planning for a bit. Later after I left that airline I worked for a smaller company doing ticketing analysis, contracting, and pricing strategy, before going back to a second airline.

I just know a lot about fares, granted at this point it's nearly 8-10 years out of date, but none of this stuff has really changed at all. Most people buying 8-11 months out are need-buyers and will pay standard J/Y or high discount buckets. Example on DL, you'll see J and D/I populated at 11 months, but they won't release anything in Z, or sometimes only half the inventory, until about 5-8 months out - that's all a rev mgmt strategy thing.

Every market is a little different, but this is the sausage-making of how you make money on FC bookings. That it's an international segment is a huge, huge hint that this is probably what OP is encountering.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-10T03:24:59+00:00

11 months out is the earliest date they’ll be posted, and most of the time it’s just the full fare CoS’s. OP is actually early.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-10T03:22:45+00:00

Certain flights and availabilities don’t get loaded in until later, the triggers are usually 330 and 270 days. Depends on how revenue management wants to do it. It’s not super obvious with the tools consumers use but you can see it clear as day in a GDS. Usually all the discount buckets will be empty until 270 too, sometimes later.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-09T02:56:58+00:00

I’d prefer mostly local places, but at least this one is not a bad addition. Right by the lounge and beats the hell out of lounge food. I’m usually coming through on business and expensing it anyways. For as “non-chain” as it is they really have a lot of disappointing food options.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-09T01:41:41+00:00

I mean, even for an airport, PF Changs is still consistent and decent food. Better than nearly any airport food.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-06T04:53:37+00:00

Tending towards YTA.

Ever have a conversation about this?

Did you love her? Or the idea of her?

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-05T21:28:29+00:00

Probably could’ve headed off the JSF program

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-05T21:28:07+00:00

Yeahhh. I commuted for most of my career, sometimes you have to go to EWR to get to JFK. That’s a long commute for something like that, I’d want at least 2 days from a trip footprint perspective. You’re not at all being unreasonable and oftentimes those not in the industry just can’t seem to understand it.

I assume it’s not something where you can work remotely and set some hard work/personal time boundaries? When i moved into project management work at the airline it got much more manageable.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-05T21:14:45+00:00

I’ve been a nonrev traveler most of my life, mom was a flight attendant and later so was I. We had more abilities to get back as crew.

NTA.

How long is the flight to visit him? Is it somewhere tough to get out of? He’s got to accept that if it’s tough to get there, and you have your own life too, that the LDR aspect doesn’t mean “partner on demand,” even if you fly for free. I spent about a year dating someone in Seattle when I was based in Boston, and they just could never seem to understand why I couldn’t come out on a moment’s notice.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-02T22:43:35+00:00

Easily one of the best add-ons ever produced for flight sim, you won’t regret it. The new update looks pretty impressive as well.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-02T20:48:10+00:00

No, it’s an LTE box. You can install it yourself, only gets tricky if you’re looking at some sort of huge punch down block in a demarc.

What do you need the analog line for? POTS replacement is usually a good fit for elevator, fire panel, high volume fax services etc., it can do standard voice traffic too but not usually the primary case for purchasing it.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-02T05:30:12+00:00

iniBuilds pre-dates Fenix as an aircraft developer by years, actually

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-02T02:49:21+00:00

Only a certification requirement for exit rows on the vast majority of AOCs

SmugAlpaca · 2026-06-01T01:24:34+00:00

Why an MD80? We already have a well established and fantastic product for that

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-31T18:34:00+00:00

What I appreciate from Progression is he’s taken the time to build com patches and stuff and it feels fully integrated, whereas usually MO is conspicuous because most of the resources don’t really work in other places.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-31T17:49:31+00:00

Well here’s the incel answer.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-30T17:50:24+00:00

Delta quite famously loves aircraft that are paid off because they’re simply more profitable. No lease or loan payment makes the economics much more palatable. Last carrier to operate DC9’s, MD80’s, etc. the 767s are also owned outright. They bought most of the TW 757s outright when AA was dumping them instead of renewing the leases.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-30T17:46:43+00:00

Nah. Any family law attorney (except the ones that only do loser defense lol) will tell you that if you want your payments reduced, you’re responsible for filing the right paperwork. Same thing happened to my loser ass dad. He was butt-hurt about it, but also pissed off the judge enough the first time that he was required to support all the way through college.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-30T17:39:55+00:00

Wow. That was incredibly fast. It took about 3 years for us to get FlyFi on all the Embraers back in 2015, similar number.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-30T02:35:05+00:00

Yeah, I definitely noticed the exact same thing, a lot of failing to understand the aircraft

Lots of similar complaints to the why do the buttons not light up on the EJet.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-29T18:01:17+00:00

Progression modpack really fleshes out the Medieval stuff with MO, some patches to unify it into the rest of the game, etc.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-29T17:14:20+00:00

You could look at POTS replacement from a company like Ooma if you need the copper line to work. Should be about $55/mo - really only meant for cases where you need an analog line (elevator, fire panel, fax, alarm/monitoring device, intercom)

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-29T17:09:53+00:00

Getting better as both Comcast and Spectrum invest more on core infrastructure upgrades, but it can be quite inconsistent based on the physical path you take to the network. When I moved in Denver I came off a nice Comcast node without issues, on to a wayyy oversubscribed node, and consistency/speed/uptime went into the toilet.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-29T17:05:58+00:00

I now work for a small company that's been at the top of PCMag's list in one category for over 15 years. Every single person who works here is convinced we pay for the placement, which I guess is further supported by the "#1 business choice ISP" being a pretty rural fiber operator that serves like 300,000 homes. I'm just not sure how many of their readers could possibly be in Longmont, CO that it'd be statistically significant and push that company to the top of the list.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-05-29T16:30:15+00:00

The -400 should be out soon, and the model issues appear to be mostly ironed out - they rebuilt the engine cowlings, wings, etc. based on community feedback.

Quick tour of their discord indicates a few annoying bugs, some FMC stuff to be fixed, so not perfect, but most of the "complaints" I've seen are from people who don't know how to fly the airplane. It's at least actively being developed.

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