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Old 01-28-2021 | 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by velosnow
So thinking about cost savings and general waste of resources, how soon are we getting rid of the paper release/flight plan? Getting tired of answering questions about why we still use dot matrix printers at the gate.
FAA —> Focus Group —> Tiger Team —> Checkairmen in a sim —> FAA —> Focus Group —> Tiger Team —> Surface to keep Microsoft happy because SEA (wait big mistake. Let’s double down for a few years and go with the Surface 2 — wait, sunk cost fallacy. Let’s do what every other airline in the world does and go with the iPad but first) —> Focus Group —> Tiger Team —> Checkairmen in the sim —> But what if —> Tiger Team —> But we still have a warehouse full of North receipt printer paper that no one wants —> COVID —> cost savings.

Unless the Okidata printers start breaking or we run out of paper, I give it another 5 years.
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