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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: 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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  • (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.