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Vienna Airport Says Glitch That Disrupted Dozens Of Flights Resolved (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the poor-tech dept.

On Sunday, Vienna Airport was at the receiving end of a number of flight delays and cancellations due to data transmission issues. On Monday, it announced that all the issues have been resolved. Reuters reports:"Austrian air traffic control has solved the issue," the airport said on its website early on Monday. "At the moment there are no delayed or canceled flights. We advise passengers to contact their airline." The automated transfer of flight planning data between air traffic control centers in Brussels and Vienna collapsed completely for a while on Sunday afternoon, said a spokesman for Austro Control, which monitors Austrian air space.

2 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Nice link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Links back to this post. Good job idiots...

  2. What was the problem? by gavron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the "problem" was "resolved" how about linking to a story that actually describes the problem?

    This is slashdot. We want to read about computer things that break and how they get fixed, not get some PR person saying "It's all good now, come on over, the weather's clear." What's all good now? What broke? How do we learn from this so we don't have the same breakage. What did you learn from it so you don't experience breakage.

    This could be a great learning experience. Sadly the link above doesn't provide that.

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