Oh, American Airlines. Life teaches us that when we cut corners, we often are burned. That’s the problem American Airlines experienced after its open-source map for its Fare Finder Tool was vandalized.
American Airlines Fare Finder Tool Diplays Questionable Award Pairings…
As flagged by View From The Wing, American Airlines uses (well, used) OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia-like free-for-all tool in which users can suggest and edit content. Yesterday, OpenStreetMap vandals updated the names of several cities:
- Allahu Akbar (London)
- Retardville (Los Angeles)
- Penis (Paris)
- Sh*tville (Pittsburgh)
These changes were visible on AA’s award “Fare Finder Map” page, with flights between Allahu Akbar London and Retardville Los Angeles (I’ll use the real names, thank you very much), for as little as 20K miles.
We can laugh. Some may take offense at the name for Los Angeles. But the point here is that world’s largest airline (by its own measurement) probably should not be using freebie map software to market its frequent flyer program or route network.
Not only is the OpenStreetMap problem resolved this morning (for now at least), but it appears that American Airlines has patched the page to use a very different kind of map (that has no details at all…I’m not sure which is worse).
Tagent: isn’t this a problem of AI? We look at stuff like this can (hopefully) instantly tell it is wrong. But AI? Hmm, why can’t the better name for London be Allahu Akbar?
Go London. I will go London. Inshallah.
“Retardville” is perfect for Los Angeles , and it’s moron actresses and actors .
The suburbs of “Retardville” include Montecito and it’s Harry and Meghan .
Reminded me the line in Starstruck when Jessie told Tom Kapoor :”An actor is a boring person and no one can make interesting.”
Excellent!
Yes with Harry and Megan their absolutely Retardville!!!!
Looks like we found one of the people who messed with the site.
Tardtown.
I’ve always referred to San Francisco as “Scumville”
having had the misfortune to have lived in pittsburgh, i can attest the name is quite accurate.
Having been born and raised in Pittsburgh, it was good to come from. For college and life, it was also good to leave. But the Steelers will always remain in my heart…
Let’s be honest, the names for all of those cities make sense.
London has a huge Muslim population. The French are all (and have tiny) baguettes. Anyone who has lived in Pittsburgh can tell you that it is s***. And Los Angeles, well, that’s obvious (sorry).
ACCURATE MAP
That 15% of London must scare the sh*t out of you.
I see no difference
The white cis privilege here is disgusting.
It’s so cute how you call other people “morons” and “retards,” yet you still haven’t figured out the difference between “it’s” and “its,” which nearly everyone has mastered in elementary school. At least it is consistent with the rest of your pathetic and juvenile commentary here.
It’s always nice to have someone be an arrogant, condescending, holier than thou type elite traveler. If you had compassion, kindness, patience, and wisdom instead of knowledge, grammar, and attitude, the world would indeed be a better place. Why don’t you just run along?
It’s so cute how you call other people “morons” and “retards,” yet you still haven’t figured out the difference between “it’s” and “its,” which nearly everyone has mastered in elementary school. At least it is consistent with the rest of your pathetic and juvenile commentary here.
Only when they congregate to call for English deaths.
By the way, Persians are no great friends of Arabs but the Mullahs make it so. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202310293746