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IT Crash Causes British Airways To Cancel All Flights (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
British Airways canceled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend. The airline said it was suffering a "major IT systems failure" around the world. Chief executive Alex Cruz said "we believe the root cause was a power-supply issue and we have no evidence of any cyberattack." He said the crash had affected "all of our check-in and operational systems." BA operates hundreds of flights from the two London airports on a typical day -- and both are major hubs for worldwide travel. Several hours after problems began cropping up Saturday morning, BA suspended flights up to 6 p.m. because the two airports had become severely congested. The airline later scrapped flights from Heathrow and Gatwick for the rest of the day.
...the outsourced IT guys from TCS in India need to fly to the UK to fix the 'power supply' issue but currently they are unable to book a flight on British Airways.....
Ramadan starts today
Maybe it's a good thing all the flights are grounded, then.
***MUSLIM EXPLODES***
.. find my fucking bag that they lost A WEEK AGO, the fucking fucks.
*cough*
Don't blame the IT workers. I had the same thing happen where I work. The middle manager, trying to look good, cut necessary costs. One power blip in the grid, and everything was dead because we had undersized UPSs everywhere, and they couldn't handle the load. He said "inrush current" thousands of times, but never knew what it meant.
Learn to love Alaska
BA is awaiting a call from an Indian claiming to be from Microsoft saying they have a faulty PC and it sending out signals to Microsoft and getting to look at the event log. This alerted BA to pay the individual $150 dollars to fix their PC by download TeamViewer
"No the server isn't down. You must be using it wrong, idiot." *unplugs coffee maker, plugs server back in*
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
So a power supply failure can bring down all operations on a global scale. Good to know that BA had outsourced part of their IT staff to India!!!
As another poster quoted "BA in 2016 made hundreds of dedicated and loyal IT staff redundant and outsourced the work to India".