"mrtravel" wrote in message
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> John Doe wrote:
>> Mr Travel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
>>>the fuel usage would be the same?
>>
>>
>> Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.
>
> How do they do this?
> If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger name,
> there no place to mark the passenger's gender.
An ancient main frame, once wired up to be an unbeatable checkers player,
has been converted, all the plug boards reset, to make a "Wild Ass Guess" at
gender, and has been demonstrated to be correct in 96.7% of transactions,
adequate for a/c weight & balance determination.
If you're "Roger", you're likely male, "Hilda", female, and once they replug
the board for the 6th letter in the name entered, the machine can solve the
"Frances/Francis" equation. Initials only default to male, and entries from
the US South carefully segregate "Billie Jean" from "Billy Gene". It deals
easily in .ing entries such as "Pancho" or "Pancetta"
You've heard of SABRE? This is a smaller shop, out-sourced to Oaxaca and
manned by a crew of aging former circus dwarfs disabled by arthritis and
medicated with the gusanos from bottles of Monte Albano Mescal, called
POIGNARD.
TMO
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