All flights frozen? Southwest LAX

Southwest is growing fast; taking over lot of business from competitors. Maybe that is why it happened?

yup....and you never know who your co-worker REALLY works for...

nope

Still shut down?

I was doing a lot of flying with Southwest during the time their old 300 series 737's were falling apart. One had the roof open up during flight at 34,000 feet. They took a bunch of planes out of service, but didn't replace or change flights. I was stuck at LAX for hours on end week after week while they still tried to service the same flight calendar with less planes. It was a joke. I feel bad for the travelers. It suks.

Would this be one of them there cyber attacks maybe?

possibly...and if it is and the media decides to start being honest we'll hear about it....otherwise it will come out eventually.

Have friend inside Sac Airport....
Even though they are telling the passengers that it was a computer glich....that is not what is being said in the 'backroom'.
Anybody question as to why all of a sudden there is increased security at the airport? She also said that they increased the 'security' for the Western Seaboard.
As to what is up? They are not talking, but there are some that are in the upper management that are really nervous.

And I'm sure all the 'cloud' nonsense is the lay-awake-at-night product of some honcho in the NSA... the whole damn concept is a spy's wet dream.

Hahaha. Their ticketing system is down?!?! MUST BE THE APOCALYPSE, NOTHING ELSE COULD CAUSE ARCHAIC HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TO FAIL.


Bloody hell, you guys will bite on anything. You should keep calm, at least until real doom occurs.

You forgot:

OpenVMS: @sys$system:shutdown

AIX: shutdown -Fh

Linux: halt, or init 0, or shutdown

AS400: pwrdwnsys option(*immed)

For updates

uh....this is for a MAJOR airline....not some office work BS, which "maybe" would run the likes of linux, aix, or openvms.....one would hope anyway....if infrastructure geeks who like toys and don't understand business run the show.

it's possible they use mostly distributed computing....many stupid organizations do....be they flavors of old ibm / aix stuff, linux (really? i would NOT think so), or openvms.

one never knows though when you have idiots in IT building up SILOs and ignorant of IT infrastructure execs throwing money at "problems" definitely like the inmates running the asylum and never leaving any documentation behind...as a trail of their "handiwork."

jmho

Last Edited by m&m's on 06/22/2013 04:55 AM

MUSLIMS did it! This is the new way of 9/11 type doom....only took them 12 years to figure out how to hack.

No such thing as private. The DOD owns the entire internet. Unless you have 80 trillion to build a separate network.

Southwest cancels 64 flights after computer glitch

CHICAGO — A system-wide computer failure forced Southwest Airlines to ground its entire fleet of airplanes preparing for departures late Friday, and at least 64 flights had to be cancelled even after service was fully restored hours later, a company spokeswoman said.

Michelle Agnew told The Associated Press that 50 of the cancellations were flights scheduled for late Friday night departures in the western half of the country. The other 14 were Saturday morning flights scattered across the U.S. because crews were not able to get to airports in time to make the scheduled takeoffs.

An estimated 250 flights - most of them on the West Coast - were grounded at least temporarily Friday night. The glitch impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of each aircraft.

[link to www.star-telegram.com]

Reports: Southwest Airlines grounding flights due to internal computer failure - @9NEWS

Blame it on Kim and Kanye

have they tried turning it off and on again?

"L", NO, i donot even know whatis "LAX": some kind of laxative maybe

monetary system (the banks are down, they have all fled to the bunkers, taking all your money with them . . . ) i always knew it would happen on a weekend

the seem to think they are all constipated if there is no money around, or their credit card doesnot work etc, so therefore they cannot even take a sht; they just keep going round and round in circles, with their thump up their aze.

a "DOD" is what ?

yes. begin shitting pants NOW!

Have a great weekend Sloane :)

Is this all cleared up now, and no doom? Is this correct? Southwest's flights are not still grounded.

And you believe them? Remember, the news only repeats what the Government allows them to say....