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We all laugh at internet memes from airlines like Ryanair, easyJet and Vueling of a person dressed in many layers of clothes to avoid having to check the suitcase. Until it's your turn to do it. And it is that flying with cheap prices seems synonymous with losing dignity and almost the human condition. But don't worry because now you can lose it before you get to the airport. All this thanks to an application that tells you approximately how big your suitcase is.How useful the technology that means you don't have to open your suitcase in front of everyone and start dressing in layers as if you were going to the street instead of a plane! Ah, but we are only talking about measurements, not weight.
Flying cheap has a price: your comfort And airlines like Ryanair give this concept a twist to the point of ridiculousness. As much as not only do you have to pay for the suitcase that you carry in the hold (something common in low cost companies), but now it also costs money to travel with hand luggage on the plane itself (something that has never been seen before). Be careful, they allow you to carry backpacks and bags that fit under the seat. So if you bring extra shoes, a pair of pants or some warm clothing, you know that you have to go to the checkout. They say that it is to avoid one of their many problems of delays and waiting at boarding, and so that no passenger gets into the cabin with larger suitcases than they should.The fact is that now they sell an attractive ticket price, but you know that it will increase with different and “basic” extras.
An app to avoid the drama
For some reason easyJet wants to avoid the gruesome scene that sometimes occurs at the counters of these companies. Open suitcases, people wearing more clothes than the temperature of the place advises or payments that you don't expect in your cheap ticket because the suitcase exceeds a few centimeters the recognized measurements by the company. Normally there are delays in shipments if they entertain themselves in finding ways to make travelers uncomfortable.
Although it is a low cost company that has fewer limitations in terms of hand luggage, it does not seem to want to solve much with its new application.In it, currently only available to iPhone users, augmented reality technology is used to measure your suitcase. Specifically, Apple's ARKit 2 technology is used to be able to measure approximately the length, width, and height of your suitcase through the mobile's camera. Which will allow you to know, approximately, if you will have to pay a surcharge or not when you go to board and want to take the suitcase to the cabin with you. Although in the end the application only tells you if your suitcase falls within the measurements of 56 x 45 x 25 centimeters, without specifically specifying those of your suitcase.
You just have to start the application, and take advantage of the square that appears on the screen to frame your suitcase. This tool automatically detects the measures and limits the suffering that until now has been seen in billing queues.
What is not entirely clear is whether, with this, they want to avoid check-in queues, avoid the embarrassment of travelers when they receive bad news before boarding or, perhaps, limit the work of your employees. The fact is that, with an application that only approximates reality and that does not measure the weight of the suitcase, it is difficult to think that any of them will be solved of the problems and inconveniences involved in traveling with low cost companies.
Of course, no one can now say that they are not a modern company with a relatively useful application for a small percentage of mobile users (Android is still the majority platform). All by and for the client…
