Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Wait, people are briefing the FAs via text and email? Not crapping on it, I've just never seen or heard of it. Is it a text on FF?
There used to be a website that created a version of the html flight plan when the plain text flight plan was posted into it. Since the code for the Delta html flight plan was based on the code from this site, this version was similar to the Delta html flight plan, but had a few more "bells and whistles." One of those features was that it created an e-mail that included some of the features of the times section of the old html flight plan without the UTC column that could be pasted into an e-mail that was opened by a link that opened the e-mail with the addresses pre-populated. The pilot using it could edit the e-mail to add personal notes before sending.
After Mission+ was introduced, there was also a shorter summary of the flight plan using an iOS shortcut that that included the flight attendant e-mail feature and a shorter Flight Family summary that could quicky be copied and pasted. All of this was shut down by Delta.
This was used as a backup to a face to face briefing. However, the flight attendants had a backup with things like flight time, pilot names, a link to destination weather, etc.