Paper Releases
 

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.

Ha! Solid work there Goggles. I mean, just looking at iCrew I don't really have my hopes up, though MiCrew does give me a smidgen of hope.

Delta is your wealthy uncle who drives a 17 year old
Cadillac. He’s not selling it because it still runs. He can afford a new one, but part of the reason he is wealthy is because he is still driving that damn car. I plan on stuffing the paper flight plan and weather update into a grey bag on my retirement flight a couple decades from now. I’m just surprised it won’t be on the mad dog.

Haha I couldn’t have said it better myself!

you and velos nailed it! Hahaha.... that being said, June is the plane for bye bye flight plans that we throw away anyways.