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justiceischeap

(14,040 posts) Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:03 PM Jan 2017

Delta planes all grounded for computer problems

Wasn't United afflicted this way last week?

Wonder if someone is hacking airlines.

Heard on CNN.

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Delta planes all grounded for computer problems (Original Post) justiceischeap Jan 2017 OP

Its rare to have this level of groundings of general groundings from two different airlines uponit7771 Jan 2017 #1

Thanks. The woman they interviewed said it was like having to reboot justiceischeap Jan 2017 #2

Delta had another outage back in august unblock Jan 2017 #3

It affects only departures, not flights already in the air. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #4

Delta is my first choice for Control-Z Jan 2017 #5

Somebody needs a disaster recovery system HoneyBadger Jan 2017 #6

Flights are departing now - whatever it was, it appears that they fixed it. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #7

uponit7771

(90,346 posts)

1. Its rare to have this level of groundings of general groundings from two different airlines

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:06 PM

Jan 2017

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)

2. Thanks. The woman they interviewed said it was like having to reboot

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:08 PM

Jan 2017

our personal computers. It doesn't seem likely this would happen with 2 airlines within a week of one another.

unblock

(52,243 posts)

3. Delta had another outage back in august

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:08 PM

Jan 2017

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)

4. It affects only departures, not flights already in the air.

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:10 PM

Jan 2017

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

5. Delta is my first choice for

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:10 PM

Jan 2017

Long Beach to SLC. Free in flight text messaging. Non-stop flights. Earlier today I was thinking about booking a seat. I'll wait.

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)

6. Somebody needs a disaster recovery system

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:14 PM

Jan 2017

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/09/delta-datacenter-crash-math-disaster-recovery-roi/

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)

7. Flights are departing now - whatever it was, it appears that they fixed it.

Reply to justiceischeap (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:15 AM

Jan 2017

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