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Delta Airlines Cancels Thousands of Flights after Crew-Scheduling Computer Crash

posted by martyb on Sunday April 09 2017, @05:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-for-the-computers-to-crash-than-the-planes dept.

McGruber writes:

Delta Airlines began cancelling thousands of its flights on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, blaming the resulting delays on thunderstorms at its Atlanta hub (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/delta-flights-canceled.html). The airline still has not recovered as of Saturday, April 8 — already this morning, Delta has cancelled another 275 flights.

The resulting chaos at airports has been extensively documented in a flyertalk thread (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta-air-lines-skymiles/1834788-april-5-2017-delta-cancels-300-flights-due-thunderstorm.html). The thread contains pictures of people sleeping on airport floors, reports of 20-40 hour call wait times, and claims that Delta's crew-scheduling computers have crashed. In a thread at Airline Pilot Forums (http://www.11alive.com/news/local/long-lines-reported-saturday-morning-at-atlanta-airport/429759800), Delta employees are posting about waiting for work and not being called in.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:51PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:51PM (#491229)

    Of all the ways to include "links" in the summary, putting them in plain text then enclosing them with parenthesis seems to be the WORST option.
    Those then not only run off the right side of the page (for me), they also aren't auto-converted to clickable hyperlinks.

    Stating my preference once again: Construct proper hyperlinks with proper link text which contains white spaces.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:24PM (#491296) Journal

    I don't know what Browser/OS combination you are using, but for my setup, I can select the text of the URL, drag it up to the tab bar, where a new tab will open on the URL.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:53PM (#491313)

      Yeah, that will work.
      With a no-spaces string, I like it when I can just double-click that to highlight it.
      With a parenthesis at the start of the string, that won't work; I have to carefully mark the significant part.

      That still leaves what the "link" does to the S/N page.
      I use NukeAnything Enhanced.
      I can mark and remove a bunch of a super-long hyperlink (to eliminate the horizontal scroll bar and narrow the width of the page to that of the window), with that hyperlink still being valid/dragable/clickable.
      Can't use that trick with super-long plain-text "links".

      I still fondly remember when the site did the break-long-strings-at-the-right-margin thing in HTML and not via CSS.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:30PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:30PM (#491336) Homepage

      That doesn't negate anything the GP said, though. And it's almost exactly as irritating as selecting, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V, compared to just clicking a hyperlink.

      --
      systemd is Roko's Basilisk

  • (Score: 1) by charon on Monday April 10 2017, @05:59PM (2 children)

    by charon (5660) on Monday April 10 2017, @05:59PM (#491780) Journal
    I have no clue what you're talking about. Unless you're looking at the original submission and not the actual story as posted? The raw submission did have the URLs in plain text. When I edited it, I enclosed them in A tags so they are proper hyperlinks. And that is the story that hit the front page. So in summary, what?

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:54PM (1 child)

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:54PM (#492399) Homepage

      When I (not the OP) originally saw the story - direct from the RSS link - the URLs weren't linkified.

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      systemd is Roko's Basilisk

      • (Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday April 12 2017, @12:39AM

        by charon (5660) on Wednesday April 12 2017, @12:39AM (#492551) Journal
        Huh, looking at the time stamps, I guess I must have changed the links after the story went live. I wasn't around to give it a second look when the primary editor queued it up, so by the time I got to it and noticed the un-links, it must have already been published. My apologies. The primary editor in question shall be chastised brutally with six rubber bands and a bottle of nitro-glycerin.