Southwest Airlines’ New Routes to Puerto Rico Create Mathematical Anomaly, Analyst Says ‘Data Shouldn’t Exist’
Southwest Airlines new routes to Puerto Rico might seem like a standard expansion, but tech analyst James Harlow noticed something strange in the booking algorithm. Flight patterns between the new San Juan and Hartford route and an obscure code for a long-gone seasonal flight are mirroring each other to the decimal point in fuel consumption and passenger load predictions. “The data says these two routes are the exact same flight, even though they’re years apart. It’s a glitch in the matrix—if you look at the raw logs, it’s like the airline is flying a ghost plane alongside the real one,” Harlow claims.