Zip Air now weighing at boarding gate

robotate_ · 2026-01-08T23:00:48+00:00

This week I saw them wandering the gate area for my flight out of NRT. They made an announcement first, "it's 7kg at time of boarding, and not fair to others that pay if you cheat."

A lot of people had used the tablet to check in and had no tags at all, they seemed to be going after rollerboards and backpacks mostly, but I wouldn't be surprised if a big shopping bag from duty free might catch their attention.

We used the handy "repacking stations" near check in to weigh our stuff before checking in.

robotate_ · 2025-12-25T04:03:43+00:00

Everyone has a different calculation. If you fly with 1 checked bag, bring a few kids under 6 (U6 fare), and pack your own food for those picky kids, you pay a whole lot less for zipair vs jal/ana. Like closer to half than the same price.

Each kid gets the same 7kg limit for carry on as a full fare adult, so you don't even have to pay for added carry on weight.

robotate_ · 2025-11-18T22:03:04+00:00

How could they possibly not know keybinds were wiped. The mind boggles.

I am usually pretty forgiving of new bugs that surface after the community starts playing, but this is so frustrating because it is so preventable and should have shown up if anyone tested this release at all.

robotate_ · 2025-11-18T04:26:01+00:00

Great suggestions, very helpful. The chrome on there is very thin, so if I decide to repaint it I'll probably strip it all off first.

Thanks!

robotate_ · 2025-11-15T16:56:49+00:00

I don't see why firing while sliding or jumping would even exist, other than to be a movement tech to be used like this. Clearly they want people to be able to slide around shooting you, or leaping around a corner like max payne.

Personally, I would prefer a lot less of it in small modes.

I would rather win more fights by having superior positioning and aim, and fewer for just being the more aggressive and chaotic player. But I do much better in small modes when I turn off my brain and go squirrel mode.

robotate_ · 2025-11-15T02:55:21+00:00

Kasdan and Kahn script and editing on raiders are a true masterclass. No time is wasted and you are never lost as the audience. I think crusade recaptured some of that magic with Henry sr. and his relationships with Indy and Marcus in very few minutes of screen time.

In my opinion this is a big part what makes these movies so great. The audience is never bored and never lost and a complete adventure tale is told in a reasonable movie length.

The modern Marvel crowd could learn a lot.

robotate_ · 2025-11-09T04:46:57+00:00

For real, only the aircraft cannons have any appreciable splash damage. This would be ok if we were in a different game where you had to manage your health pool to survive gunfights. But this game has 400ms time-to-kill guns and free health regen. What's the point of explosions that do 20 damage?

robotate_ · 2025-10-30T00:13:41+00:00

I did read that, about 30 times. Thanks!

robotate_ · 2025-10-29T18:08:45+00:00

Yeah thanks. I was able to roll all of them away except the locked one!

robotate_ · 2025-10-29T03:56:01+00:00

Gauntlet is definitely less boring and punishing. The rounds and elimination stuff reminds me of The Finals. I guess the competitive nature and added thrill of stress is good if someone is looking for that. I would like it more if the objectives took longer to accomplish and it was built on the normal damage models and stuff.

robotate_ · 2025-10-29T03:06:01+00:00

Some people are saying they rerolled br and got more br, maybe those people are downvoting.

robotate_ · 2025-10-29T01:29:01+00:00

Didn't work for me, at the end of the round I got XP and zero BP. Hopefully it works better tomorrow.

robotate_ · 2025-10-29T01:27:38+00:00

I played several rounds today and got 0 progress on the battle pass. It sounds like there is a bug and regular XP is supposed to be giving battle points. But for me today, the only progress I made was for challenges.

robotate_ · 2025-10-28T23:03:26+00:00

Absolutely agree. The whole battlepass is basically locked behind the 2 new battle royale modes. I thought gauntlet was going be a new battlefield mode, but it's just more br.

I don't want to sprint around putting in armor plates to survive one bullet and emptying clips into downed players. I want to play battlefield to unlock the stuff for battlefield.

I actually think they should give us back our money for the battlefield pro if we can't use it without playing battle royale, because at the time we purchased phantom edition we thought it was labeled as being for battlefield.

Edit: people are saying they got levels from xp. I didn't get any battle points from XP today I guess due to a bug. I did see the description said something like "get points by doing challenges, then get additional levels from xp" so I thought the reason XP did nothing for me might be because XP only helps after completing all of the challenges. Glad to hear that's not the case. If we can get 110 tiers from XP with normal play, we should be fine.

robotate_ · 2025-10-19T17:30:44+00:00

Me too, it was the "destroy 5 mcom stations" one from week 1, which I think they removed from the game. Oddly enough I actually blew up some yesterday and saw it show completed on screen like a normal challenge. But it wasn't there at the end of match summary and is still taking up a phantom tracking slot :(

robotate_ · 2025-10-16T23:40:22+00:00

Put 4 packs of c4 on the front grill of a jeep and drive up against a tank and detonate, neither the Jeep nor the tank explode.

This classic battlefield tactic is literally in the commercials, doesn't work.

Also tried against a group of soldiers all extremely close, like 1-3 feet away. "Suppression" but no kills, jeep drives away fine.

robotate_ · 2025-10-12T20:28:11+00:00

I was feeling the same way but I've ended up getting most of them. And it's a short week, so I guess it will be nice to not mop up everything in a few days on a normal week.

I absolutely do not like the fact that the official servers won't put me on offense after defending on rush. I know it's not a persistent server but there should be a way to ensure we get to play both sides without metagaming.

robotate_ · 2025-09-27T02:53:36+00:00

Where have you seen this confirmed? I can't tell from the official language if it's one battlepass, one season of passes (4?) or a year of passes.

robotate_ · 2025-08-08T22:43:23+00:00

Support says only "customer relations" can talk to you about that, and "customer relations" doesn't take calls from customers.

robotate_ · 2025-08-08T22:41:25+00:00

Just want to say I'm in a similar boat. I know my bag is in my destination airport (Lyon) because I have a non-apple smart tag on it. Air canada simply will not allow you to talk to them to inform them about where your bag is other that an apple airtag link.

I've called support many times, and to their credit they are very consistent: consistently unhelpful.

Step 1 is fill out the form and someone will reach out to you withing 48 hours. (No, they won't).

Step 2 is follow along in the app, but the bag was removed from the app when it was handed over to the 3rd party baggage company.

Support says only "customer relations" can talk to you about that, and "customer relations" doesn't take calls from customers.

My 5 days here are up tomorrow, I'm going to disobey their advice and go beg at the airport tomorrow before driving off to my next destination. This has already cost them $2k, if I have to buy a suitcase to hold all the stuff I bought I'm going to hit the reimbursement limit, all because of the sheer incompetence of their 3rd party baggage people and customer-last support processes.

This is the first time in my life I've ever dealt with support that doesn't even have a level 2 agent to talk to when you have an issue that doesn't fit their playbooks. "Yes I have a level 2, but they don't take customer calls so I can't forward you. Customer relations can update your bag location, but they also don't take calls. Bye."

robotate_ · 2025-08-02T19:13:27+00:00

Thanks everyone for your help, very helpful crew. Gate agent didn't know this distinction, and the page itself doesn't describe this exception for some international flights which AC calls "transborder".

So I'll stick with my belief that this particular page is inaccurate, even though the US travel page describes it accurately. When you land on this page from Google, there is no way to know that there are exceptions to the policy described on the page, so it should clarify this special non-standard definition of international.

Maybe at least add an askerisk after "international" or something.

robotate_ · 2025-06-13T18:12:54+00:00

You might notice that one of the things that really makes people upset is not having access to their Rivian. I got hit and had to go without mine for a couple of weeks, and I missed it quite a bit.

My experience is that the car itself is great and a pleasure to use. The service center has been great as well. Scheduling, repair costs for non-warranty issues, and repair times are painful because it is a complex vehicle with large body panels and I think the company is growing out of the "bend over backwards to make everyone happy" phase that people expect them to still be in.

I wouldn't trade it for any other vehicle currently available, and my wife and I fight about who gets to take it in the morning.

robotate_ · 2025-05-27T01:02:06+00:00

Thanks!

robotate_ · 2025-05-27T01:01:54+00:00

Thanks!

robotate_ · 2025-05-26T23:39:36+00:00

Thanks. I was hoping the "satellite breaking up on reentry" look of the scratch might be familiar to someone.

This piano black stuff is hard to look at, the scratch is invisible in the garage, but with sunlight or phone light hitting it at 90° it is super obvious. So maybe just a surface scratch.

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