United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage 74
From reader Peter McDermott comes word of a computer outage with effects to dwarf those of the one that stranded thousands of US Airways passengers last week. This time, it's United Airlines' systems that are out of commission and unable to handle passenger reservations, leaving passengers stranded all over the U.S. According to Peter, experiencing the resultant delays first-hand at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., United planes are being sent on — along with their passengers' luggage — to the cities from which they're to leave tomorrow morning, in anticipation of the computer system being fixed in the interim.
Re:US Airways last week, now United? (Score:4, Insightful)
At what point do you stop thinking of this as a glitch and start thinking of it as an attack?
And if it is a cause of war, then how are you sure you were not spoofed?
Re:Hard to make sense of that. (Score:2, Insightful)
>Not true, I work in the airline industry at an airport. The bag cannot be sent ahead of passenger by law only on international flights
That's not a hard rule either. I was trying to fly to Europe parent non-rev standby last Christmas and didn't get on the flight. They said they would return the bags to the baggage claim. They never came. When I checked the next day, the bags had been sent on another flight to Spain, then on to Greece...unaccompanied. I ended up cancelling the trip as everything was backed up because of bad weather in northern Europe. Fortunately the airlines put a note in the baggage file and my family was able to pick up the bags. They were full of Christmas presents.