United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage

Posted by timothy on Friday June 17, 2011 @05:46PM from the because-empty-planes-save-fuel dept.

From reader Peter McDermott comes word of a computer outage with effects to dwarf those of the one that stranded thousands of US Airways passengers last week. This time, it's United Airlines' systems that are out of commission and unable to handle passenger reservations, leaving passengers stranded all over the U.S. According to Peter, experiencing the resultant delays first-hand at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., United planes are being sent on — along with their passengers' luggage — to the cities from which they're to leave tomorrow morning, in anticipation of the computer system being fixed in the interim.

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Re:Hard to make sense of that. by MrQuacker · 2011-06-17 18:38 · Score: -1, Troll

If septuagenarian "Elizabeth Johnson" misses her flight, they wont pull her bags. But if 32yr old "Ahmet Imadinerjacket" misses his flight, the bomb squad is called and his bags are imploded.