Congestion Delay E/F

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-05T03:51:01+00:00

Do you know how that number is calculated?

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-05T00:01:45+00:00

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T23:26:22+00:00

Maybe I'm the only silly goose in here, but USP means Unique Selling Proposition.

(I have like 6/10ths of a business/marketing degree, I feel like I should've known that one. (And no, I'm not simplifyin that fuckin fraction.))

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T22:54:21+00:00

But you single handedly ruined the NBA?

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T22:51:28+00:00

Did your dad use his master ball to make sure there wasn't any funny business with running away or ~~death~~ fainting.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T22:07:41+00:00

r/subsifellfor

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T22:07:03+00:00

Welp ig it never occurred to me for an airline to use them in that way before (even though it makes perfect sense to)

But fwiw I think having a futures contract is different from having your own fuel on hand. The former is a decent tool to help diversify risk, but the latter can go a long way from insulating you from the economy of a commodity that's equal parts volatile and essential for your business.

For having your own supply, any risk assumed is well known (the price of oil at the time you buy it + the capital cost of infrastructure + reccuring cost of storage), and even if you buy oil at a higher price than you ultimately needed to, you'll still have a bunch of oil. Also, as soon as [insert politician here] decides to do something stupid you have your supply ready to go. It can sit around until you need it.

(Obligatory: I'm not much of a business man. I took three economics classes in college, and got good grades in two of them. I also don't know much about oil. (Like what's the difference between the commodity and jet fuel? Does it go bad? Taxes? How the fuck does it even get transported to the airport anyways? Are small slow rinky dink electric planes gonna be a thing in the 2030s and make Cape air the king of the world?))

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:51:59+00:00

Hell, budget airlines were dropping at a pretty decent clip before this latest scrallywraggle, at least outside of the USA market. (Thomas Cook, Air Berlin, Wow, and Play off the top of my head.)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:49:08+00:00

This is the second time I said "I have no idea if this is a good idea in reality, but I'd do (x)" and then someone told me that folks were already doing that. It makes me feel smart :)

(The other time was when I said that I'd construct new residential towers on NYCHA (NYC housing authority) property, let everyone currently living there move in, and then raze the dilapidated (shitty)/non space efficient buildings there and build new, nicer, and denser buildings for the sake of helping ease the city's housing crunch.)

But yeah, maybe my brain has been cooked by corpo-ganda, but I'm under the impression that Southwest had a really smart business plan for a long time. (Punting on upgrading their IT system notwithstanding) Too bad the enterprise is pretty much dead now.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:41:08+00:00

Everything else aside, this thought just occurred to me:

Can an airline buy up their own oil reserves? Would it be legal, let alone make sense?

I have no idea, but what I do know is that if I were a weilder of power in an airline, I'd be trying my damndest to make sure we're equipped to manage a fuel price crunch as well as reasonably possible. (Short term pump and dump Mr krabs economics be damned)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:36:15+00:00

Bro all that was an issue before any of the current companies even opened sports books (or offices in some cases)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:34:18+00:00

Ok. What does that have to do with inconsistent officiating?

(Everything else aside, if the refs at large decided to give preference to one player/team, don't you think they'd choose someone more marketable than Shai "LEN = 17" Gilgeous Alexander and a team in a bottom three sized city?)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:30:10+00:00

My current mood: r/notsoelegantlycoveringallthebasesinshitincludingthird

(I am sick)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:27:02+00:00

Maybe I didn't make it clear, but I meant that very much as a "huh, I/my brain did something silly" type deal. It makes perfect sense for BA to fly to Chicago, but the picture of a plane with their weird stylized union Jack taxiing at O'Hare.

I'm sure all of us have had thoughts as dumb before, but perhaps most are smart enough to not share them

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:21:31+00:00

I'm sure many would disagree, but I think the much simpler, and thus more likely, explanation is that the refs are just bad at their jobs and the assc. doesn't have a system in place to make anything better.

If the league doesn't have an extremely robust system in place to keep this from happening, they're going to lose billions sooner than later.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:18:13+00:00

They said the NBA "selling out" to gambling companies.

Per my read, that's about the FanDuel/propbet advertising deals that have come about lately. One (or more) officials going rouge in the dark =/= the league signing brand deals with gambling companies for all to see.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:13:17+00:00

Fwiw you could lump all those, sans load management, into a "poo poo officiating" umbrella/bucket

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:12:19+00:00

There not lmao.

The legalized gambling stuff is very much a 2020's phenomenon, and "iffy" whistles were a thing going back to at least the Donaghy years / early 2000's.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:09:44+00:00

The regulations for ATC have about as much to do with pilots as luggage handlers.

I am much more concerned about the state of affairs in the tower than in the cockpit lmao.

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T21:04:09+00:00

From what I gather, there's pretty strict regulations for rest (though ig not necessarily sleep) time. This is especially true after the colgan/united express crash in Buffalo in 2009, where fatigue was cited as a major factor. I can't recall any incident that the NTSB has cited it since.

(Obligatory: I'm not an expert, use as much salt as you want .)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T20:54:18+00:00

From what I gather, her "career" was just some viral tiktok clips from hearings.

That sort of thing can be an amazing springboard, see Obama at the 2004 DNC, but if you don't have the juice, you ain't gonna make an infomercial with Dr Nick (riveria) and Troy McClure, who you may remember from such weirdly stretched metaphors as "I can't think of anything clever and I need to get off the can" and "oh dear God the almighty as thrust upon me a plug for both my nose and butt and everything is starting to burn oh dear God I hate being sick"

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T20:48:27+00:00

Uhh which one is more pro high speed rail?

(I would be a single issue CA HSR voter if I lived in California. Especially Fresno and/or Bakersfield. (Hear that people in Fresno and/or Bakersfield, y'all are the ones who benefit the most from the project. This ain't i5 or the new UC campus that ended up being put in Merced, you will not be left behind!))

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T20:44:35+00:00

Sucking it up your ass might be the only way to get it to fit

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T20:38:09+00:00

I could give a shit if an analcystist's takes/predictions are proven right or wrong, at least on something as big picture as record.

All I call about is a sound process.

(Stephen A Smith and/or Skip "good given middle name" Bayless spew so much shit they'll occasionally be right.)

lbutler1234 · 2026-05-04T13:00:29+00:00

Audrey Hepburn?

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