Employee website with wings!

[roosterfish]

A preview of the new employee website is up.
It's called WINGS

http://wings.usairways.com/


...thehub looks better in my opinion.

 

[Crzipilot]

Looks like a cheap boiler plate web page builder you get with your 9.99 Go Daddy subscription......oh boy... the IT geniuses at work.... Heck I setup an online store for a small company that looks better than that.

 

[N965VJ]

There are several pictures at the top of the page that cycle randomly when the page is refreshed.

One of them is the infamous “mini Airbusâ€￾.

Unbeliveable.

 

[EMBFA]

WTF?

Why would they include that picture?

 

[PHL Approach]

WTF?

Why would they include that picture?

WTF number 2

Probably cause some IT n00b that doesn't know anything about US saw that and thought it was really an aircraft we had.

 

[Harry Callahan]

Maybe some one we know done the website

 

[flynomore]

It is a tacky (or kacky?) photo, send your protest to the feedback button--it might work, it might not. BWTH.

 

[Non Rev]

I like it better than "The Hub"!

 

[beachboy]

That is so insulting. Tempe, your a bunch a freaks.

 

[FlyDCJets]

I actually like it better than both the Hub and Compass. The only CON, is someone like myself that uses an Apple with Safari web browser, will have to download Firefox.
Regards
DC

 

[sharonstoneseat]

This looks like another one of those "Change for the sake of Change" things using (bad) elements.

PLEASE! Why do we need to have case senstive passwords? Not even my banks or credit card companies insist on that archaic method.

Way too much white space and junior high school script. Not easy on the eyes at all.

Who in the what bad committee meeting put the ETC and Web-Check-in icons on the bottom? That is a really big WTF!

All in all.... and I don't like to say this...... amateurish and bad. Way bad compared to other airlines.....

 

[EMBFA]

...... amateurish and bad. Way bad compared to other airlines.....

That pretty much describes the airline itself.

 

[necigrad]

PLEASE! Why do we need to have case senstive passwords?

I haven't looked at the pasword rules yet, but case senstive is so common everyone uses it. Compass has stupid password rules though. At least 8 letters, one lower case letter, one upper case letter, at least one number, AND you need to change the password every 4 months or so. They used to require a special charatcer in all the passwords as well.

 

[sharktooth]

I actually like it better than both the Hub and Compass. The only CON, is someone like myself that uses an Apple with Safari web browser, will have to download Firefox.
Regards
DC

Why? Safari works fine.

 

[sharktooth]

I haven't looked at the pasword rules yet, but case senstive is so common everyone uses it. Compass has stupid password rules though. At least 8 letters, one lower case letter, one upper case letter, at least one number, AND you need to change the password every 4 months or so. They used to require a special charatcer in all the passwords as well.

Case sensitivity is not a requirement on sophisticated logins as those techs understand security rather than just read it. Complex passwords increase the probability that the user will write down the password du jour, leaving it on or about their computer in/with their wallet/purse, depending. It simply allows IT to point the finger of blame at "the user" in a hacking event, that is all. (Sound like a familiar management technique, blame the employee?)

An uncomplicated password prevents the occasional mistake or unsophisticated person from unauthorized access. A complex password does that but is also, normally, ineffective against a determined hacker because they will bypass that part of the login altogether using multiple techniques, see NSA wiretap, among others.

The only real deterrent to brute force methods is the "try three times and talk to IT" methodology. If you are interested in real security (not the fake kind as practiced here and other unsophisticated companies) try:

A blog covering security and security technology.

Here is a picture of the suspect that they think is responsible for last weeks communications cable outages:

Cable cutting suspect