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

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: 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.

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