Then why did it get shut down? The only thing official from ALPA was that it was done so due to “security concerns.”

 

That could just mean that they didn't like a third party having any interaction. It doesn't necessarily mean there was anything inherently wrong with the site other than not being controlled directly.

 

When I was at my regional I put together a website that allowed reserves to share their schedules before we had a thing called 'reserve transparency' to track scheduling's shenanigans. Well, the IT folks at the company didn't like it and I was forced to shut it down.

Similar here perhaps as there was nothing 'wrong' with it, but somebody didn't like how things were being transmitted/shared.

 

No.

The DNS does show Panama. Explanation below. The actual site resides on a server in NYC. Domain registry has nothing to do with the physical location of the hosting server.

You got it. When you buy a domain name from any of the main providers (Namecheap in our case) they typically throw in a free year of WhoisGuard - a company with a headquarters in Panama. They put their information in the DNS registry on websites’ behalf as part of their service, hence the Panama address.

It’s free for the first year and keeps a personal address off the internet, so being cheap pilots we said why not? Nothing more to the Panama thing than that.

If you want to do a little more digging, you can ping our domain name which will return an IP address that corresponds to a Digital Ocean server in NYC. I guess you could say that’s where we are “operating the site” from... Nothing nefarious going on, although I understand the initial concern when someone pulls up the DNS and sees Panama.

No data is ever sent to, or stored, outside of our secure VPS in NYC. There was, and is, no security issue. The Jumpseat Tool doesn’t do anything that can’t be accomplished manually, directly with myIDtravel.

^^^Pretty much. As I’ve mentioned, I will get an email out as soon as we have time to put together an accurate message.

 

No good deed goes unpunished!

 

Thanks for the explanations.


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Who operates myidtravel? You’d think they would appreciate someone facilitating their service or offer a deal of some kind to you so it benefits you both and improves their service?

 

Lufthansa.

 

Wow, isn't that the truth. I think FlightCrewTools was doing a great job and I'm bummed to see it shutdown. Hopefully you guys can get back up and and running soon. Good luck!

 

Any updates on when the non JS stuff will be back?