{"id":663,"date":"2007-10-13T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-10-13T00:11:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T00:11:04","slug":"outsmarting-your-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2007\/10\/13\/outsmarting-your-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsmarting your airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I was sitting at the San Diego airport, trying to figure out if my flight was going to be on time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Continental thinks it will:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/13-01.jpg?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Being suspicious, I notice that there&#8217;s no plane at the gate.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/13-02.jpg?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where is it?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/13-03.jpg?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aha, looks like we&#8217;re waiting for flight 1726. Where&#8217;s that? I&#8217;ll check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightaware.com\">FlightAware<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"223\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/13-04.jpg?resize=400%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arriving 3:21. A bit later than the display at the gate is showing, and a total of 39 minutes late. And indeed, we took off almost exactly 39 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliott.org\/blog\/joes-holiday-air-travel-tips-its-us-vs-them\/\">Joe Farrell<\/a> for this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I was sitting at the San Diego airport, trying to figure out if my flight was going to be on time. Of course, Continental thinks&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2007\/10\/13\/outsmarting-your-airline\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Outsmarting your airline&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}