Miami airport - MIA. Is that Missing in Airport, all AA planes?
American Airlines: TITSUP computers ground US flights
American Airlines is blaming a computer breakdown for grounding its flights across the US today, sparking chaos. In an alert circulated in the past few minutes, Uncle Sam's Federal Aviation Administration said an unspecified IT glitch has halted all American Airlines flights traveling in and out of Chicago O'Hare, Dallas-Fort …
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Thursday 17th September 2015 18:53 GMT jamesb2147
"Major Airports"
That's a bit of a misnomer.
ORD, DFW, and MIA are all AA *hubs* which is actually vastly more important than just being a "major airport." In fact, they're AA's three BIGGEST hubs!! Basically, AA has a handful of less major hubs left (if they're still operational, which I'm not confident of). Those would be places like PHX, PHL, CLT, and LAX.
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Friday 18th September 2015 00:40 GMT Robert Helpmann??
Disruptive Tech
Maybe they bought a bit too much into the "disruptive technology" marketspeak?
Based on the quote in the article, "We have resolved connectivity issues that led to a ground stop today at our Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth and Miami hubs," my guess is that all of their machines were running Windows 7 or 8 and were automatically upgraded to 10 at which point all of their settings were changed to the Win10 defaults including those for Windows firewall. Perhaps it was something else, but it is scary to me how plausible that sounds.
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Thursday 17th September 2015 20:28 GMT Notas Badoff
Software half-life
I realized during one of these snafus a few years ago that I had no reason to fear - anything I'd contributed to United's or Continental's portfolios of whoa woes had to have aged out of their systems by at least a decade or two since. I didn't need to duck anymore - that code was long gone.
Now I can just sit back and know, smiling, that what the fools replaced it with was much worse than anything I'd perpetrated!
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Friday 18th September 2015 12:45 GMT launcap
Re: Software half-life
> anything I'd contributed to United's or Continental's portfolios of whoa woes
> had to have aged out of their systems by at least a decade or two
I suspect some of the middleware code I worked on while at Galileo in the early 90s might still be in place[1]. Which is a pretty scary thought.
[1] Assuming they are still using TPF
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