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Delta Rolling Out iPhone 12 to Over 19,000 Flight Attendants
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Pretty sweet to have an iPhone 12 as your company phone (I got one too). Personally I'd never buy it having already the 11 Pro.
I might dislike Tim Cook but he really is smashing it with flooding the corporate world with iDevices, Macs and JamF services.
I might dislike Tim Cook but he really is smashing it with flooding the corporate world with iDevices, Macs and JamF services.
Sure, so now they’ll be able to video the fights between the pajama-clad dirtbag passengers (especially on those vegas flights) in 4k or whatever. It will certainly enhance my youtube viewing experience.
I haven’t flown in years even before COVID, so I’m out of touch with a lot of that. I think using your boarding pass in Passbook was fairly new the last time I flew anywhere.
What budget? They're still burning money. They recently reported a net loss of $2.26 billion. This is their 5th consecutive quarterly loss.
Delta forecasts profit later this year after another dismal quarter
Delta Air (DAL.N) posted a bigger-than-expected loss for the first quarter on Thursday, hurt by lower average fares, while also forecasting a return to profitability later this year as more people get vaccinated and start traveling again.
Delta Air posted a bigger-than-expected loss for the first quarter on Thursday, hurt by lower average fares.
Average fares dropped 14% in the first quarter ended March 31 from the fourth quarter, while the average fuel price per gallon rose to $1.87 from $1.45.
It also expects adjusted June-quarter revenue to fall between 50% and 55% from two years ago, with the midpoint of the outlook at $5.94 billion, below Wall Street's estimate of $6.22 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Total operating revenue fell 60.4%, while adjusted net loss was $2.26 billion, or $3.55 per share.
Analysts on average had estimated a loss of $3.17 per share on revenue of $3.91 billion.
Delta's June-quarter adjusted pre-tax loss is expected to narrow to between $1 billion and $1.5 billion.
Chum in the water for a good morning whine by all, I say.
So, I had the opportunity to fly a lot for work over the last few years (2017-2019) - all over the world. And most of the time I flew American Airlines but a few times I flew Delta or United.
Most people wanted to pay for meal items with credit card and the stewardesses had to scramble and run from one end of the plane to the other end to find the 1-2 mobile pay stations - and half the time it didn't work or it took an ungodly number of minutes to work.
Maybe the iPhones will have a square like adaptation to allow for mobile payment?
Also, a lot of people wanted to know how to connect to the wifi for entertainment streaming - so they'll be able to show people how to do that?
Record keeping? I know a lot of stewardesses have a massive amount of checklists they have to go through before takeoff/closing the hatch - I saw some doing pen/paper checklists - I'm sure iPhones will help with that - centralizing that data, ensuring things get done.
I know it sounds bad at first, but I know a lot of offices that have switched to mobile cloud based systems for their staff and it has really improved office life from the old run to a workstation and type stuff in (especially for Doctor's offices, etc).
Most people wanted to pay for meal items with credit card and the stewardesses had to scramble and run from one end of the plane to the other end to find the 1-2 mobile pay stations - and half the time it didn't work or it took an ungodly number of minutes to work.
Maybe the iPhones will have a square like adaptation to allow for mobile payment?
Also, a lot of people wanted to know how to connect to the wifi for entertainment streaming - so they'll be able to show people how to do that?
Record keeping? I know a lot of stewardesses have a massive amount of checklists they have to go through before takeoff/closing the hatch - I saw some doing pen/paper checklists - I'm sure iPhones will help with that - centralizing that data, ensuring things get done.
I know it sounds bad at first, but I know a lot of offices that have switched to mobile cloud based systems for their staff and it has really improved office life from the old run to a workstation and type stuff in (especially for Doctor's offices, etc).
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We could get the better travel experience if the travelers could pair their AirPods with inflight entertainment.
There's definitely volume discount. And most likely they're only running WiFi only, no cellular.
They're headquartered in Seattle. Other than Seattle, they're also the dominant player in Portland and Anchorage.
Everyone with an iPhone finds them to be useful time saving devices. However, in the hands of OTHER people, “WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH THEM??” 
I like that idea, the wired headphones are too cumbersome especially in any of the current seating sections except for Premium Class with the individual travel pods.
I think it was just time to replace the iPhone 7's that the flight attendants were using. Nothing to get too excited about.
At least the Delta Flight attendant I do work for was issued an iPhone 7 a few years ago and said Delta switched to them after dumping their Windows phones.
It's not like they were in the stone age up until now. It was just time to replace their old phones. Then try to spin it off as some big change in a press release. When it's just that with new phones they are implementing some new features the phone allows for and consolidating some devices.
Not sure why people are in a huff about bailout spending. IT spending is one of those things which makes an executives butt hole pucker up tighter than a snare drum. So, they must have needed it.
Companies need to update their computing devices to stay competitive. If other airlines are improving the efficiency of their flight crews with more capable phones. They must follow suit. It's not like they are gold plating the toilets in the executive offices. They're updating the tech used by front line employees.
I'm sure the airlines have all sorts of wasteful executive spending to point fingers at. IT updates for workers. Hardly seems like one of them.
At least the Delta Flight attendant I do work for was issued an iPhone 7 a few years ago and said Delta switched to them after dumping their Windows phones.
It's not like they were in the stone age up until now. It was just time to replace their old phones. Then try to spin it off as some big change in a press release. When it's just that with new phones they are implementing some new features the phone allows for and consolidating some devices.
Not sure why people are in a huff about bailout spending. IT spending is one of those things which makes an executives butt hole pucker up tighter than a snare drum. So, they must have needed it.
Companies need to update their computing devices to stay competitive. If other airlines are improving the efficiency of their flight crews with more capable phones. They must follow suit. It's not like they are gold plating the toilets in the executive offices. They're updating the tech used by front line employees.
I'm sure the airlines have all sorts of wasteful executive spending to point fingers at. IT updates for workers. Hardly seems like one of them.
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I can't wait to fly Delta and get a nasty response from a flight attendant as I ask for a beverage because I've interrupted her texting a friend that she just consorted with the co-pilot.
There are days I wake up and can’t find anything negative going on. A quick trip to the forum posts never fails to fix that.