Vienna Airport Says Glitch That Disrupted Dozens Of Flights Resolved

On Sunday, Vienna Airport was at the receiving end of a number of flight delays and cancellations due to data transmission issues. On Monday, it announced that all the issues have been resolved. Reuters reports:"Austrian air traffic control has solved the issue," the airport said on its website early on Monday. "At the moment there are no delayed or canceled flights. We advise passengers to contact their airline." The automated transfer of flight planning data between air traffic control centers in Brussels and Vienna collapsed completely for a while on Sunday afternoon, said a spokesman for Austro Control, which monitors Austrian air space.

Nice link

[Anonymous Coward]

Links back to this post. Good job idiots...

Its not a glitch until people arrive

[Bob_Who]

If we could just get passangers to commute on the wire instead of on jets, thing would be a whole lot smoother.

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[bev_tech_rob]

If we could just get passangers to commute on the wire instead of on jets, thing would be a whole lot smoother.

I wouldn't have a problem with that. The trend looked to be improving until Ms. Yahoo Meyer decided to bring everyone back into the office.

Re: Its not a glitch until people arrive

[unami]

well, the problemems in this case were im the wires...

What was the problem?

[gavron]

If the "problem" was "resolved" how about linking to a story that actually describes the problem?

This is slashdot. We want to read about computer things that break and how they get fixed, not get some PR person saying "It's all good now, come on over, the weather's clear." What's all good now? What broke? How do we learn from this so we don't have the same breakage. What did you learn from it so you don't experience breakage.

This could be a great learning experience. Sadly the link above doesn't provide that.

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Re: What was the problem?

[unami]

they don't know yet what caused the problem. when i arrived at VIE yesterday, they had put thousands of bags from the baggage belts on the floor, sitting there unattended, while a voice over the speakers told passengers not to leave their bags alone. :-)

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[arglebargle_xiv]

If the "problem" was "resolved" how about linking to a story that actually describes the problem?

Since it was in Austria, probably a dingo ate the router. Or kangaroos cut the cables. Or they were chewed by feral dropbears.

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[Coren22]

As a product of the US public school system that led you to think of dingos and kangaraoos, neither of which is in Australia, Europe,

I have never heard of Australia, Europe, could you point to it on a map for me?

Link

[joraeim]

Here's the link that should have been with the story. (I think) http://www.reuters.com/article... [reuters.com]