Airline reservations before computers,1945.
Posted by theanti_influencer75@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 39 comments
Posted by theanti_influencer75@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 39 comments
HokieAero@reddit
Is this airline reservations or flight scheduling?
HellsTubularBells@reddit
Looks like reservations. Each numbered row is a seat on the plane.
CPTMotrin@reddit
Might be the days of the month seeing its 1-15 and then 16-31.
HellsTubularBells@reddit
Well shit, I think you're right.
Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit
And they were only taken during daytime business hours, and you had to call the airline itself.
marcusaurelius_phd@reddit
WA wa wa.
Wa.
Sunfried@reddit
That woman is Charlie Brown's teacher. (Also, I don't think she actually did the job in those heels.)
La_Lanterne_Rouge@reddit
Those lyrics are pretty simple, you would think that they could remember them without writing it down.
BadWolfRU@reddit
Wa.
Friiduh@reddit
And yet, those things worked well. Now, we have lot of problems in the damn systems as well airports are mess.
Specialist_Reality96@reddit
Back when an international flight cost about 3-6months average income and a tiny fraction of the number flew compared to now?
patrick_thementalist@reddit
Cool pic. Even the phone operation looked cool when it was manual like this. Goes to show how we as humans tend to simply everything and end up innovating!
P0RTILLA@reddit
Except the airline booking system of today is based on antiquated technology.
patrick_thementalist@reddit
Well its pretty advanced in a way. It changes the damn price if multiple searches are made from the same IP.
However, the reason that we feel this way because it takes time for people to adapt to change, and new tech can be difficult and expensive at the same time.
JamminOnTheOne@reddit
This is the dumbest conspiracy theory. Absolutely zero evidence. People keep repeating it, but nobody has ever demonstrated it.
csgskate@reddit
The IP thing is not how anything works. It’s just inventory systems changing the price as more people book and hold space. No one is monitoring your IP address to juice the flight prices
Source - I price flights for a living
gromm93@reddit
It's more to the effect that the required downtime to upgrade would be crippling.
A lot of businesses run this way, where they operate using old technology and just keep going until they're out of business. New technology only gets implemented in new companies a lot of the time.
P0RTILLA@reddit
Yes there’s several newer systems layered on top of the original but the original is very limited in today’s world.
patrick_thementalist@reddit
You didnt just share a Wendover video! Will def go through it later!
Adi-0115@reddit
It's an amazing video
P0RTILLA@reddit
It’s a great deep dive.
xboxsosmart@reddit
The IP thing is a myth! Nothing in sabre or Amadeus does that.
Spark_Ignition_6@reddit
Weird comment. Today's booking system is hugely more advanced than what's in the picture.
P0RTILLA@reddit
When did I say it was like it was in the picture?
Spark_Ignition_6@reddit
When did I say you said it was like it was in the picture?
MortonRalph@reddit
"Flites"? Something this important and they can't spell the term properly?
nanomolar@reddit
I'm assuming it's because it's shorter than FLIGHTS. Only by one letter though.
MortonRalph@reddit
Yeah, just my compulsive proofreading kicking in.
DiscreteDesiree@reddit
I worked for awhile in Hawaii, doing reservations for Inter-island travel back in 1989. Everything was handwritten, on multiple boards. The most memorable call, was a man telling me “ I want to go from here to there”. I had to explain that I was in Oahu, and I had no way of knowing which island he was on, let alone which island he wanted to go to. It wasn’t really that difficult to work with the boards, but cancellations were rather a painful. The meticulous cross- referencing could get rather mind boggling, especially when there were at least a dozen of us stepping over each other at the same time.
undockeddock@reddit
Southwest might still run on this system
thePostChorus@reddit
is saving space on the board by spelling it "flite" necessary or is there something I'm not aware of?👀
ThePonderousBear@reddit
Im not 100% sure, but in the early 1900s there were movements to simplify the spelling of a lot of English words. This could be part of that.
Simplified Spelling Board
NotDougMasters@reddit
Can we discuss the spelling of "FLITES" - it saves one letter to the proper spelling "FLIGHTS" .... there's clearly enough room to spell the word correctly.
Merry-Leopard_1A5@reddit
post/OP : "reservations before computing"
me :
my brain scug noises!
ChewyChagnuts@reddit
“I’ll have a vowel please Carol”
Eeebs-HI@reddit
Is that Vanna White?
avi8tor@reddit
Remember back in the day when had to book via a travel agent (physically had to go to a travel agent or airline office), got paper tickets and printed itenary, then had to call airline 24hrs prior for confirmation :D now just few clics in the interwebs and you are ready to go.
MortonRalph@reddit
That, and I also remember the red carbon tickets, too. I also remember when NWA sent you a "voucher" every 20k miles as a frequent flyer, too.
Ornery-Marsupial-587@reddit
Very interesting!