Elon Musk Mulls Buying Ryanair and Putting “Someone Named Ryan” in Charge [Roundup]



by Gary Leff


News and notes from around the interweb:

  • Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary and Elon Musk are feuding over whether Starlink materially increases fuel costs. So the richest man in the world muses about buying Ryanair and putting a guy named Ryan in charge.
  • JetBlue’s JSX partnership ends February 28. JetBlue owns – or owned – a stake in JSX. JSX is private and doesn’t disclose transactions, and it wasn’t material for JetBlue, so I don’t know the current status of that investment.

    United and Qatar Airways have also been publicly listed as investors, and United in some sense became closer – JSX credits were part of the Chase card portfolio refresh. And, of course, JetBlue and United are getting closer. So I wasn’t predicting this! But JetBlue does seem to be shedding partners.

  • Eek.
  • Scott Kirby thinks United should buy the Flighty app.
  • Making good use of airline food vouchers during delays (WaPo)
  • A claim that how efficiently you fill out a credit card application can contribute to approval/denial.

    if you copy-paste your SSN, address, or income, you are dead. normal people type this stuff out. churners and fraudsters use notepads.

    if you fill out a 3-page app in 45 seconds, you get flagged. bio-catch (big vendor for this) tracks “time on page.” real humans hesitate. they double-check the zip code. they scroll to read the disclosures (even if they don’t read them)

    mouse tracks: we track your mouse curve. if you move in straight lines from box to box, it looks like a script. humans move in curves and hover over random stuff.

    the “incognito” red flag: applying from a fresh incognito window or vpn makes you look like a fraudster, not a privacy advocate. they want to see a browser history (cookies) that shows you are a real person who shops at target, not a ghost.

    gyroscope data (mobile): if you apply on your phone and it’s perfectly flat on a table, you score higher risk. real people hold their phones, and hands shake slightly. perfectly flat = device farm.

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