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Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-a-bit-longer dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A technology problem delayed hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights Sunday while the airline checked-in passengers manually at airports. Around 300 flights had been delayed as of Sunday afternoon. In a statement on its website, Southwest said intermittent technical issues "are impacting website performance in creating new bookings and requiring us to process some customers manually as they arrive for travel."

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  1. Frosty by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Odds on it's due to systemd.

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  2. What the fuck is wrong with Southwest's IT dept? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This isn't the first time Southwest has had problems with their system capacity. A few months ago they had a fare sale and the resulting traffic locked up both their website and their call center. How hard is it to build autoscaling for their reservation system? Apparently really, really hard.