Posted on 08/08/2016 4:03:15 AM PDT by Enchante
Delta Air Lines Inc. has grounded all flights worldwide as a computer glitch is leaving passengers unable to check in.
The second-biggest U.S. airline DAL, -1.78% said via Twitter that “all flights are grounded due to a system outage,” prompting long delays at airports around the world.
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I have family traveling Delta trans-Atlantic tomorrow, hope this gets sorted out fast.... well maybe I should hope that they don't have to go at all....
I’m a 2 million miler with Delta. Right now, I’m stuck in the Delta gate house in the Omaha airport. I hope to get home sometime this week.
wow, sorry to hear this, good luck and I hope they get things moving soon!
Didn’t something similar just happen to Southwest?
I had glitches everywhere once. 10 days of penicillin took care of it.
I’ll say prayers for all the stuck FReepers.
What a ####ing nightmare.
I dont understand enough to know how you can have glitches everywhere
Maybe main sever gets wacked??
Redundancy matters
Maybe next are some hydro-electric systems. Petroleum pipe-lines. Electrical grids....
Thankfully, no one will be traveling! /half joking
This seems more insidious, especially coming on the heels of the Southwest Airlines' glitch. Are our airlines and infrastructures being attacked? If so, by whom? Is the FAA investigating this? Is the FBI? Does it even matter to this administration?
I don't understand how there aren't enough walls in a system to prevent one event from taking down a whole system.
I’m wondering. If the systems can be hacked, can the computers that control flight paths while in the air be hijacked? This is curiosity question, having nothing to do with this situation.
“Could be a fore-shadowing of how the general societal collapse begins to accelerate.”
Being force-fed CNN for hours without end, while stuck in an airport, could very well be considered the beginning of the end...
Probably comes down to $$$
Pay now or pay later.If they had a work around they would be up and running as we “type” and no one would be aware of the hit but them.
It does boggle the mind how CNN is on every where you go.(kinda po’s me)
Its like the people in charge of the TV’s just don’t get it
The main server was under a desk and someone kicked the plug out. They can’t get the hard disk to spin up.
I used to service hubs for Alamo and Fed Ex as a telco tech.
Would need to be a big desk.
Fascinated me very time I would step in the room.
The worst part of flying Delta is forced CNN all over the Atlanta terminal
Something weird happening out there...
Computer glitch turns Southwest Airlines deals into a debacle
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/06/business/la-fi-0806-southwest-glitch-20120806
Sorry to hear from a fellow freq flyer. Such joys. I’m sitting on an AA plane as we speak. I heard Delta has old sucky computer systems from one of their employees.
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