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Multiple US Airlines Hit By Flight Check-in and Booking Systems Outage (nbcbayarea.com)
A computer system that airlines use for check-in kiosks, booking and more was experiencing issues on Tuesday, apparently affecting multiple air carriers. From a report: There were widespread reports on social media of air passengers inconvenienced by the outage, with long lines at airports across the country. Sabre Airline Solutions released this statement shortly before noon Eastern Time: "We are aware of the issues facing some of our customers. Recovery is in progress. We apologize for the inconvenience." The company was tweeting that statement to people who took note of the outage. American Airlines flagged the issue, saying in a statement that Sabre was "experiencing a technical issue that is impacting multiple carriers, including American Airlines. Sabre is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, and we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience." American later said that the issue with Sabre's system "has been resolved."
One would think a company as large as American could handle writing their own software instead of farming it out to India
Thanks, Obama.
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its not American Airlines, as TFA says. it is the underlying booking system that has been in use for decades called Sabre. Nothing to do with India, actually.
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he probably spent all morning writing his latest screed about how his evil trolls forced him off slashdot instead of patching the servers
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Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
Might be interesting to know whether Sabre just found some bugs in their current code version, in some ancient code; or whether some hardware went kablooie.
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https://www.sabre.com/insights/tag/india/?post_type=releases
airlines and their passengers deserve everything bad that happens.
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Real news says Barr lied about the Mueller report and just had an investigation opened on his own fat faggot traitor ass. Trump dies in prison either way.
The system works, eventually.
We had phone/internet outage on CenturyLink aka Level3 around then. Putting on tin-foil hat, maybe they were related.
A light fact checking of Sabre's software development habits shows that H1Btards were and are very much involved. A light glance at the screens at an airport Sabre kiosk shows a windows solution that its clients get to choke on. Even to the most Republican Hypocrite Pervert Ivan will admit that Revenue, not Efficient was the measure of success-litanies championed at Sabre.
Your fox overlords appreciate your continued stupidity.
its not American Airlines, as TFA says. it is the underlying booking system that has been in use for decades called Sabre.
Nothing to do with India, actually.
IIRC Sabre was a division of AA some years back. I remember using it along Amadeus and Galileo.
One would think a company as large as American could handle writing their own software instead of farming it out to India
This is not some random software/networking glitch.
This is a retaliatory attack, but only the first.
The FBI busts Dream Market on the dark web, people on the dark web start taking down US infrastructure in response. The US is far more target-rich and vulnerable than the dark web. Next, I'm guessing that it will be the US electrical grid and US TLA/LEA assets if they don't back down. The US DOJ will be writing reports with pencil & paper by candlelight while trying to stave off the angry mobs without power or food who will want to hang them.
SABRE was originally created by American Airlines in the late 1950s, only becoming an independent company in 2000.
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One would think a company as large as American could handle writing their own software instead of farming it out to India
American Airlines created Sabre in 1960.
If the FAA can survive a system-wide computer outage and land every plane that was launched safely, what is the fail-safe system that can allow airlines to check-in passengers in the event of such an outage.
Answer:
Paper tickets, pre-printed manifests with the expected (confirmed) passengers expecting to board the flights, with space to write-in any pop-up standby passengers.
That racket you hear at the check-in gate is an impact printer (usually dot matrix) printing multiple carbon copies of the final manifests before departure. This is a carry-over from earlier FAA rules requiring such a paper trail (with signatures) in duplicates.
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
One would think a company as large as American could handle writing their own software instead of farming it out to India
I thought that this is not a software but rather hardware issue (keyword -- system outage). What make you think that it is a software? Just because the software company released a statement, this doesn't mean it is a software issue.
SABRE came from the SAGE radar targeting and tracking system.
One would think a company as large as American could handle writing their own software instead of farming it out to India
This is not some random software/networking glitch.
This is a retaliatory attack, but only the first.
I know it !
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