Posted on 07/08/2015 2:13:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
For the second time in five weeks mighty United Airlines, the world’s second-largest carrier, has been brought to its knees by a “technical glitch” that promises to impact more than half-a-million travelers today at the height of the busiest travel period of the year.
The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its full ground stop order at around 9:20 a.m. ET. A ground stop order means that no aircraft – in this case no aircraft flown by United and its United Express EXPR +0.05% regional airline partners – can take off. United flights already in the air were allowed to continue but upon landing would not have been allowed to take off had the ground stop remain in effect.
Even though United resolved the glitch this morning, the near-complete disruption of its first two “banks,” or waves of flights in the Eastern and Central time zones, and its first bank of flights in the Mountain and Pacific time zones means that the giant carrier’s operations will be severely behind schedule all day. That’s because planes and crew will not be where they are scheduled to be when they are scheduled to be there. And they won’t have time to catch up with their schedule until after midnight, after which most normally are scheduled to be idle for six to eight hours.
In many cases United pilots and flight attendants today will run out of available duty time under FAA and/or contract rules limiting the number of hours in which they can work in any 24-hour period. Reserve crew members can be called in as replacements, but that’s both likely to cause further flight delays and, because of the size of today’s disruption, likely to be inadequate.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
What glitch? Their flight crew scheduling computer? And now the FAA adds gas to the problem fire? When they could put up reserve crews right away who qualify to fly, except for FAA rules? Great.
They said “failed router”... So united doesn’t have an HA backup system?!? Like hell...and if true their CEO and CIO both need to step down.
“Failed” router?
Is that what they are calling it now?
Meanwhile... U.S. Navy pays millions to keep using Windows XP
The Navy will pay more than $9 million to keep using Windows XP under a contract signed this month, Computerworld reported Tuesday. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) will pay Microsoft $9,149,000 through the contract, which was approved earlier this month. It could eventually grow to be as large as $30,842,980 by 2017. The funds will pay for Microsoft to provide custom security support to up to 100,000 Windows XP machines used by the Navy.
-PJ
It is not very well explained, is it? One would almost think there was a major security problem, and they are hiding that from us.
I have TWO ROUTERS in my house. It takes me about 5 minutes to recover from a “failed router”.
Chicom hack attack?
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