Monthly Archives: October 2017

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New Year’s Resolution

You might it’s a little early to bit thinking of next year, but I never think it’s too early to set goals. I’ve been thinking of the hobbies that I enjoy on the side and I realized that I haven’t been doing any of them the past couple of years. Lindsay and I were so busy with moving to our new house, our wedding, our honeymoon, work, landscaping the front and back of the house, the building of the gazebo, the basic chores that need to be done around the house, and spending time with each other.

Now that we’re finally got our house in order (unpacked, furnished, decorated, routines in-place for chores, and finding time to spend with each other), the gazebo built (we just have to finish the trim and perhaps install a couple of outlets), and the landscaping pretty much done (we still have some edging mistakes to correct, a small fence I need to build for Lindsay’s garden area and gravel to add to the driveway), I can finally spending some time enjoying my hobbies.

So I’ve decided to start a series of YouTube videos I’ll call “Lessons in Instrumentals”

The aim is to combine two of my major hobbies: songwriting and production, and videography. I plan on attempting to write, produce, mix and master one instrumental a month by allocating 1 or 2 hours every Saturday morning while Lindsay is sleeping. I know the project is ambitious, but I’ve got to start somewhere.

The other hobbies I’d like to return to as photography and writing, but I don’t have a plan for those right now.

Thought

Airlines and Overbooking

I just read the following article on CBC:

Couple bumped from Air Canada flight booked 2 months in advance

It got me thinking about how airlines can avoid overbooking while still

As this YouTube videos has shown, airlines overbook flight in order to make sure a plane is full to make the flight worthwhile. The problem is when everyone is able to make the flight and there are not enough seats available.

Here is what I came up with:

  1. Charge for seats as per usual to people that book months in advance (this now includes an insurance fee).
  2. If a passenger can’t make the flight for no good reason, the passenger can go on standby for the next flight with a refund of the difference between full price and a discounted price.
  3. If a passenger can’t make the flight for a good reason (medical), insurance pays for the flight to the airline and the passenger gets compensated by insurance after an investigation.
  4. For flights with missing passengers, stand-by passengers can a book a seat at a discounted price.

This way, an airlines doesn’t have to overbook, but rather is concerned with filling the flight. Legislation should then be passed to make it illegal for airlines to double book seats.