Lập trình viên tạo ra trang web mới làm nhục hãng hàng không

Một nhà phát triển phần mềm đã tạo ra một trang web để mắc kẹt các hãng hàng không vì cách họ xử lý kém cỏi của các hành lý của hành khách sau khi bạn gái của anh ấy mất một chiếc vali quý giá. #Luggagelosers #SoftwareDeveloper #AirlinesShame #LostLuggage #AirlineAccountability

Vào ngày 21 tháng 6 năm 2024, bạn gái của Pieter Levels đã mất hành lý của mình sau một chuyến đi từ Lisbon đến Barcelona trên hãng hàng không Tây Ban Nha Vueling. Vali mất của cô phải được gửi đến Austin, Texas, nơi cặp đôi bay sau đó, chỉ để bị lẫn lộn giữa các sân bay và khách sạn một lần nữa, không bao giờ đến đích. Trải nghiệm đáng thất vọng này đã thúc đẩy Levels biến một trải nghiệm tiêu cực thành một kết quả tích cực bằng cách tạo ra một công cụ giúp du khách khác có thể đưa ra quyết định được thông tin hơn khi đặt vé máy bay. Anh đã làm điều này bằng cách xếp hạng các hãng hàng không dựa trên khả năng hành lý của hành khách bị mất. #LuggageLosers #AirlineRanking #TravellersDecision

Trang web sử dụng một số tiêu chí để xác định xếp hạng của hãng hàng không. Trước hết, có số lượng vali bị mất trong 30 ngày qua, với British Airways dẫn đầu với 306.374 mục nhỏ của người dùng bị mất vào thời điểm viết bài. Thứ hai, có số lượng khiếu nại trong cùng khoảng thời gian. Lần này, British Airways và Delta Air chia sẻ vị trí dẫn đầu, mỗi hãng với 395 khiếu nại. #TopAirlines #FlightComplaints

Vào thời điểm viết bài này, hãng hàng không Tây Ban Nha Iberia là “kẻ thất lạc hành lý” lớn nhất, với Air India và Canadian Westjet Airlines đứng ngay sau. Ngược lại, những “người chiến thắng hành lý” lớn nhất là Japan Airlines, Indonesian Lion Air và hãng hàng không Brazil Azul. Trang web cũng cung cấp xếp hạng cho các sân bay, với London có ba trạm, Heathrow, Stansted và Gatwick, trong top 5. #TopAirports #LostBelongings

Đối với nhà phát triển, nguyên nhân của việc mất hành lý ngày càng tăng là do các hãng hàng không trả lương thấp cho nhân viên chịu trách nhiệm xử lý hành lý của hành khách ở mọi giai đoạn để cắt giảm chi phí. #AirlinesCostCutting #LuggageHandlersUnderpaid

Nữ hành khách, một cách riêng biệt, đánh giá cao sự cố gắng của nhà phát triển phần mềm để biến nghịch cảnh của bạn gái anh ấy thành một kết quả tích cực. #GirlfriendsLuggage #SoftwareDeveloperAchievement #LostAndFoundItems

Vậy nên, bằng cách tạo ra trang web mới này, nhà phát triển phần mềm Pieter Levels đã thể hiện sự cảm thông và quyết tâm để giúp những người khác tránh rủi ro khi đi máy bay và đồng thời tạo áp lực cho các hãng hàng không cải thiện dịch vụ của họ trong tương lai. #LuggageAwareness #AirlineResponsibility #PassengerExperience.

Nguồn: https://www.inkl.com/news/boyfriend-codes-a-website-to-shame-airlines-after-girlfriend-s-luggage-went-missing

After a woman lost her luggage on a low-cost Spanish airline, her boyfriend, Pieter Levels, a software developer, promised to take revenge in a way only a man of his talents could.

The entrepreneur created a website called luggagelosers.com, a platform created to shame irresponsible airlines and increase accountability when it comes to protecting the belongings of their passengers.

The site provides a live ranking of services organized by how much luggage they lose. This, the developer hopes, will help people make more informed decisions and will force these airlines to improve moving forward.

A Software Developer created a website to shame airlines for their poor handling of passengers’ belongings after his girlfriend lost a valuable suitcase

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On June 21, 2024, Pieter Levels’ girlfriend lost her belongings after taking a trip from Lisbon to Barcelona on the Spanish carrier Vueling. Her lost suitcase had to be sent to Austin, Texas, where the couple flew afterward, only for it to get mixed up between airports and hotels again, never reaching its destination.

The frustrating experience motivated Levels to turn a negative experience into a positive one by creating a tool that would help other travelers make more informed decisions when booking flights. He did this by ranking airlines based on the likelihood of the passenger’s luggage getting lost.

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The website uses a combination of criteria to determine the airline’s ranking.

First, there’s the number of bags lost in the last 30 days, with British Airways leading by 306,374 user belongings lost at the time of writing.

Second, there’s the number of registered complaints during the same timeframe. This time, British Airways and Delta Air share the top spot, with 395 complaints each.

Third, it takes into account information taken from social media by scouring the internet for people talking about their lost luggage and cross-referencing it with data from the airlines themselves in order to accurately estimate the likelihood of the passengers’ belongings getting lost.

Finally, by combining all of the above and taking into account airline size differences, each provider gets assigned a probability score.

Spain, the United Kingdom, and India are among the top contenders for having the worst airlines, airports, and overall handling of travelers’ belongings

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At the time of writing, the biggest “luggage loser” is the Spanish airline Iberia, followed closely by Air India and Canadian Westjet Airlines.

Conversely, the biggest “luggage winners” are Japan Airlines, Indonesian Lion Air, and Brazilian airline Azul.

The site also offers rankings for airports, with London having three of its stations, Heathrow, Stansted, and Gatwick, in the top five.

As for countries, the top five are India, with a 1 in 17 chance of losing your belongings, followed by Spain and Kenya.

“Nice launch, almost 10,000 people have seen Luggage Losers today!” Levels wrote as he reported a successful launch of the service back on June 30th, 2024. 

Airlines wanting to cut costs on staff, the creator of the site argues, is the main reason behind them losing, and later selling, passengers’ precious items

Image credits: Luggage Losers

For the developer, the reason behind the growing amount of luggage being lost is due to the airlines underpaying the staff in charge of handling travelers’ belongings at all stages in an effort to cut costs.

“Airports and airlines, especially in the US and Europe, are trying to maximize the amount of flights they can operate while minimizing the cost,” he stated. “Part of that is underpaying the people handling your luggage.”

“Because they don’t want to pay more, there’s a shortage of people who want to do those jobs, and the quality of the people remaining to do those jobs is low,” he continued. “At the same time the load on airlines and airports has never been so high. That’s why luggage handlers will cut corners and might wrongly tag your luggage.”

Image credits: Miguel Ángel Sanz

Levels continues by revealing an even more concerning statistic. Turns out that airlines might be selling your lost belongings to strangers. 

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“Lost luggage that is unclaimed is auctioned off to strangers. But ‘unclaimed’ is a subjective term here. If the airline does not have the staff to actually get your luggage back to you, they’ll consider it as ‘unclaimed’ after 21 days.” He explains, adding that even if there’s a 60-day limit for them to hold onto your luggage, no legal requirement obligates them to do so.

This phenomenon was confirmed in May 2024 after a woman sparked outrage online by uploading an “unboxing” video of someone else’s lost luggage, which she had bought on one of the aforementioned auctions from Heathrow Airport (ranked first for lost items on the site) for just £80.

Users on X congratulated the developer on his invention, sharing their own recommendations and experiences with lost belongings on flights

Image credits: Luggage Losers

After the software developer shared his girlfriend’s experience, users joined in to share their own grievances dealing with lost belongings at airports, further motivating him to create luggagelosers.com.

“Air Canada lost my snowboard luggage for 2 days. I had an AirTag and could see that it was in terminal E at Boston airport and I also had a picture of the luggage,” shared one user.

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“Standard operating procedure in Barcelona airport. Baggage handling there is insane,” said another.

“Vueling also lost my luggage 2 years ago. Never found it again and only got a couple of hundred euros back after hiring a lawyer,” commented a fellow victim of the Spanish airline.

Image credits: Luggage Losers

“AirTags have really wrecked the airline’s narrative around luggage. Before, they could always blame someone else, but now it’s clear that they just screw up all the time,” argued another, pointing to one of the tools the developer uses to track lost items.

“He’s a keeper.” Women, in particular, valued the lengths the software developer went to turn his girlfriend’s misfortune into a positive result

Software Developer Shames Airlines With New Website After Girlfriend’s Luggage Goes Missing
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