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Passengers face chaos due to airport check-in system failures around the globe
Frustrated passengers reported problems at London Gatwick, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Reagan Airport in Washington DC. Travellers in Singapore, Zurich, Melbourne and Johannesburg also appeared to be affected on Thursday morning after firms using Amadeus Altea software were hit with issues. (www.standard.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
One can expect such occurrences when one defers investment in robust, fault tolerant computer systems for the cheapest, fragile, and friable systems in order to meet Wall Street market quarterly expectations upon which executive compensation is determined.
To illustrate Joel's point, I wanna say it was last year that DAL 'upgraded' their computer systems to Windows7.
That was up from XP right? :P
NO, DOS
Huge fun! My son got stuck at DCA. Not only was there a check in delay, the aircraft then had an electrical fault that called for a replacement. Once that happened, he proceeded to LGA but was forced by visibility issues to finally land at JFK. A 65 minute flight became a 300 minute mess. Dee train, boss, dee train....
He could have driven there in that time and stopped for lunch when you add in extra time to go through TSA time.
..or boarded the train at Union Station.