Ryanair has a professional “trapamaletas” template. And it will improve their rewards so that they yield (even more)

Ryanair’s hand luggage policy is crystalline: they want you to pay for him. The company is making all possible efforts so that either trips without a suitcase or, on the contrary, you pay for it before entering the plane. And he has had an idea: bonus his best employees. “We will catch you” This is how Michael O’Leary, CEO of the company, its intentions regarding hand luggage has summarized. Words have collected them BBC and in them he directly points to the client whom he accuses of “not complying with the rules.” Therefore, it launches a message if you are thinking that you can climb to one of its planes without paying the extra for the hand suitcase: “We will catch you and hope to reward and bonate our staff to choose those large bags.” More money. A few weeks ago We knew that Ryanair rewards employees that discover the largest number of travelers who try to climb their aircraft with too large hand suitcases. The company has been rewarding 1.5 euros for each “captured” suitcase. The maximum bonus that a worker could receive was 80 euros. Now, that will change. The company will continue to press. According to the British media and as confirmed to us to Xataka The company itself, Ryanair will raise the prize to 2.5 euros per suitcase. But, in addition, it removes the top of the 80 euros that the wage earning could receive. “Large”. What O’Leary refers to “those large bags” is a suitcase with which you can travel in cabin with many other companies. However, Ryanair prevents the plane from traveling to those who travel with a bag that exceeds 40 x 30 x 20 cm, since the company has slightly expanded the allowed measures. This size barely leaves space for a small backpack. In fact, they are so meager that they have ended create your own market niche. In the event that you want to travel with a “cabin” suitcase, you have to go through the box. The ideal is to do it hiring the supplement When taking out the ticket because, of not doing so, The surcharge at the counter is 55 euros. “Without a suitcase”. Ryanair CEO has defended on several occasions that its great goal is that passengers move “without a suitcase”. It ensures that all weight added to the plane implies greater fuel consumption and, therefore, that the expense in it does not compensate for the transfer of suitcases. In fact, he said that “I don’t want the money” of those billing. We explained in Xataka That, despite O’Leary’s word, the truth is that the suitcase is still fundamental in the company’s income. Ryanair is not explained without all expenses associated with the ticket price. The company catches you with a very small price that you will only pay in very specific situations. It travels cheaper than with other companies but, when you add expenses, it is not much cheaper than in other similar flights. A constant fight. The luggage soap opera is being especially relevant in Spain. Last year, the Ministry of Consumer It imposed a historical fine to Ryanair of more than 100 million euros. Along the way, Other companies also received sanctions Low Cost like Vueling or Easyjet, among others. That decision was a bomb in the Spain-Ryanair relationship. Since then, and with Aena’s rates as another reason to define its strategy, The company has taken up to 800,000 squares of regional airports, leaving seriously injured to aerodromes Like Valladolid’s. Now, Keep threatening with taking out another million places from similar size cities. Is it legal? There are two scenarios that we must contemplate. Spain. If we talk about our country, the truth is that justice has proved both Ryanair and employees who have denounced these practices. In the first case, some magistrates defend that the company does not have defined the minimum measures it has to offer and that, as the client accepts conditions with the purchase of the ticket, are obliged to comply or accept surcharges. The magistrates who defend the position of consumers point out that the regulations speak of “essential luggage.” That same position is what the government wields to fine the company. In this case, it is assured that in the measures proposed by Europe There is no place for that “essential” In hand luggage and, therefore, the company is breaking. Europe. At the moment, the position of European justice is about to be resolved. The company’s CEO said just a few days ago in which they were optimistic about the possible fine that could fall from Spain. It is based, perhaps, on the Last movements that have been registered from Europe. The institutions seek a new passenger regulation and it begins to be intuit that finally We will have minimal measures For hand luggage for all companies. But, yes, These measures are very aligned with those offered by Ryanair. It is no accident That the company has chosen this summer, when the European process is underway, the change in its hand luggage policy. The movement reads as a wink to regulators. Photo | Giorgios Savidis and Benjamin Elliott In Xataka | In the war between Spain and Ryanair for hand luggage, the airline has found an unexpected ally: the European Union

The war in Ukraine has become a video game. Kill gives points and rewards to exchange in a military Amazon

It is something that has happened in all modern wars and conflicts, and in Ukraine it was not going to be different. We refer to the use of surprising tactics for combat. We had previously talked about the use of a Naval optical illusion And of a drone that “seeks” That they capture it to display your true threat. The latest: a rewards system with points. The prize: go to a war “Amazon. A war with points. I told it This week Insider and Political. In an unprecedented fusion between military and video game logic, Ukraine has launched a Rewards system that gives points to their soldiers for killing Russian troops or destroying their vehicles, provided that these acts are verified by recording of video drones. These points, called “Epoints”, can then be exchanged In Brave1 Marketa new digital platform that operates as A “Military Amazon”where combat units can acquire from attack drones and terrestrial robots to electronic warp devices or components such as batteries, cameras and engines. Add casualties to buy artillery. The initiative, promoted by Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, seeks to speed up and Decentralize access To the equipment, allowing the soldiers themselves to choose and buy the technology that best suits their needs in the front, either with own funds or through the rewards accumulated by their effectiveness in combat. The system establishes a numerical value for each target Enemy: Six points for each Russian soldier eliminated, forty for each destroyed tank, with equivalences that allow, for example, to acquire drones such as The “Baba Yaga” by 43 points or the sophisticated “backfire”which costs about $ 60,000 for three units. Delivery is made directly with state financing, without intermediaries. The Magyar’s Birds Unitfamous for its FPV drones attacks, it has already exceeded 16,000 points, heading The March rankingfollowed by specialized brigades in unmanned systems and special operations. A military Amazon. Far from being a simple shopping site, Brave1 Market represents a Disruptive Logistics Model and acquisition in times of conflict. Your catalog has More than 1,000 items ranging from advanced armament to technical solutions of communication, surveillance, navigation and electronic protection. Soldiers can navigate the portal, compare models, read specifications and contact manufacturers to close orders. Part of the content is of restricted accessbut the bulk of the inventory is publicly available to facilitate fast and autonomous decision -making from the front. One of the main objectives is to reduce the gap between technological development and its real implementation on the battlefield. In fact, Insider told that many units did not know that certain devices were available; They can now request them directly without having to wait for bureaucratic channels or slow -on channels. Drones as currency. The points system has the drones that, like We have explainedare absolute protagonists of the new battlefield Ukrainian. The most used They are the FPV (First-Person View) and short-range bombing models, operated by highly mobile units that film each impact to document it to the military intelligence network. These videos not only allow to verify the elimination of enemy objectives, but have become The “hard currency” with which more technology is accessed. Each approved purchase is Financed by the Ukrainian Government and delivered directly to the requesting unit, which reinforces a decentralized supply model based on operational merit. Meritocracy and ethical dilemma. No doubt, we talk about a system that converts the war effectiveness into immediate benefitswhich generates a Ethical conflict on the gamification of the conflict. Killing becomes a rewarded act not only with recognition, but with material power to improve the offensive abilities of the unit. Although brutal, the model has proven to be effective for Accelerate the answer On the battlefield, promote tactical initiative and allow troops to access the technology they really need. In parallel, it also represents a form of digitalized war economy, where each confirmed impact translates into purchasing power, each successful mission in Access to strategic resources. A logic that is not free: responds to the urgency of Modernize the military apparatus Ukrainian in the midst of an asymmetric war, and the need to compete technologically with an enemy that has greater industrial and human reserves. Of course, he questions the ethical limits of the military culture model that can generate in the long term. A new military paradigm. The only existence of A “store” like this Change the concept of war in the 21st century. We talk about a digital architecture, distributed and Efficiency oriented Immediate with which Ukraine not only tries to match Russia in offensive capacity, but to overcome it in technological agility, tactical innovation and adaptation speed. If you want too, the battlefield does not seem only a physical space, but also a kind of Interactive platform where each action can be measured, rewarded and transform into operational advantage. A New War Economy where the value is measured, not in abstract terms, but in eliminated objectives, points won and delivered drones. Together with the obvious ethical dilemmas he poses, he also reveals to what extent the modern war is as technological as lethal. Image | NATO North, Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Russia has confirmed one of the great unknowns of war in Ukraine: North Korea accompanies them and not only with troops In Xataka | Russia has crowded a surprising blow to Ukraine: 100 soldiers walking for four days inside a gas pipeline

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