[Closed] Rather glad I'm not flying today.

Pilots bar will be rammed today then 😉

computer problems.

Using the word 'crash' in the headline is maybe a little misjudged 🙂

Heard something about this on the car radio news this morning, but nothing since, no radio or TV's, so is it some sort of extended DOS attack aimed at BA?

Hopefully I get out of Oakland tonight to fly home. I'm not sure my legs have another ride in them after yesterday's classic!!

Bit of a shocker, global failure.

Hopefully I get out of Oakland tonight to fly home. 

Are you flying BA?

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Managed here but was quite bumpy!

But on a more serious note, bad news for BA and difficult for all hoping to travel.

...so is it some sort of extended DOS attack aimed at BA?

I believe they've been cutting back on IT stuff for a while. A friend worked on that side for them and was made redundant a few years back and is fairly cheesed off with the whole situation.

Pretty sure there's been smaller issues leading up to this, so it shouldn't be an earth-shattering surprise.

Are you flying BA?

*Chuckles*

Shermer - I'll be sitting in the little private cabin at the front with a great view and locked door!!

Wine list in my cabin is significantly better, Dan!

AA 773 to DFW is my next, en route to PBI. Home via PHL, oddly. (much cheaper than direct to the hell hole that is MIA!)

Flashy - sad but true!!! Still I've been researching a road ride from OAK through Sonoma & Napa for next months trip

"Occupy front seat when flying solo"
Is that label actually necessary??

Strangely yes to keep in weight and balance, some people put a bag in the seat, This was yesterday's

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This one is rear seat only when solo, as you can see on the placard on this dash.

Yes, in most old tandem seat aircraft, the pilot flies behind the passenger. I'm assuming CofG issues mean this is not possible solo.

Aha that makes sense, I didn't think that through! 😳

I believe they've been cutting back on IT stuff for a while. A friend worked on that side for them and was made redundant a few years back and is fairly cheesed off with the whole situation.

Yep, bloody bean-counters. I've heard the pilots are the next to go...
"This is Frank, your Captain for the flight, just give me a few mins to work out the controls and we will be on our way."

Colleague from work is caught up in this. She's bought a Virgin flight to get home tomorrow. No idea how much that's going to cost.

Apparently she was lucky enough not to have got past security, as all of those who had were stuck in a giant queue to get out.

How come BA keep doing this to themselves?

The Airline Industry is incredibly competitive and cost-cutting is rife. But whereas RyanAir, EasyJet and other newer companies started with a no-frills business model, BA have had to try and change their business model and transition over legacy IT systems. I've avoided BA for many years now and fly with newer airlines for short and long haul.

The wine list may be good captain but as I remind my colleagues as they post their status in yet another lounge if we were in the slightest important people would be flying to us to not us to them 🙂

if we were in the slightest important people would be flying to us to not us to them

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The Airline Industry is incredibly competitive and cost-cutting is rife.

This, very much this.

Worked in aircraft engines for 16 years, the cost cutting is incredible, pretty much every airline owns nothing, everything is leased from leasing companies, overhauls are the absolute bare minimum, so I'd imagine every other part of the business is the same.

Left to go into pharma, the difference is unreal, sure we still have budgets, but they're realistic at least.....

BA blaming a power outage, surely they have back up power supplies, or due to cost cutting packs of AA batteries from pound shops.

Which company will be next to suffer computer problems

"left to go into Pharma" Funny enough that's what we fly all over the world for. Well I don't anymore, after 20 years I now rarely get on a plane and if I do it's only if they'll be port and cheese at 30,000ft. 🙂

only if they'll be port and cheese at 30,000ft

The port is usually too cold. 🙁

You are right captain, as is the red wine but the problem is that for some very strange reason white wine at 30'000 ft combined with the right music leaves me an emotional wreck. And the vodka tends to put the whole plane into a spin which I find a little disconcerting so i just lower my standards and drink the port without complaint.

white wine at 30'000 ft combined with the right music leaves me an emotional wreck

I think the whole, "I'm away from home and have had a few and am exhausted" thing may be the reason there! I've shed a tear watching films that didn't deserve it before!

I think the whole, "I'm away from home and have had a few and am exhausted" thing may be the reason there! I've shed a tear watching films that didn't deserve it before

Na, you've probably looked down at those flying shoes of yours and just bubbled uncontrollably at their unadulterated grotesqueness....

BA blaming a power outage, surely they have back up power supplies, or due to cost cutting packs of AA batteries from pound shops.

Exactly what I thought, it's a critical system, where's the redundancy?

I'm involved in an issue with a customer at the moment (unusually these days, my role has changed and I only get involved with customers these days when things are in danger of properly going sideways). The big challenge is that they need to down a system for a period of time to do maintenance checks and it's a system which they're insistent has to be operational 24x7. So... why have you only got one of them, then?

The company I work for offers a cloud solution. We have a big server cluster with redundant (RAID) disk arrays, redundant power supplies and UPSes, redundant network switches and routers, Internet / WAN connectivity into it from two different suppliers, etc etc. And then we built the whole thing all over again in a geographically separate data centre. If one of the DCs was to spontaneously explode we'd be able to keep going.

A global computer outage due to "power failure" is inexcusable, unless the entire planet suddenly went dark.

Two perspectives.

1. Work would have been extremely quiet today so would've been a break, but...

2. I'm in Squamish hoping that my BA flight back on Monday night is good to go.

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white wine at 30'000 ft combined with the right music leaves me an emotional wreck

I think the whole, "I'm away from home and have had a few and am exhausted" thing may be the reason there! I've shed a tear watching films that didn't deserve it before!

As for outages probably explained why I didn't see any BA planes on my pass through Melbourne

And the vodka tends to put the whole plane into a spin.

I had to double check I wasn't still reading one of dantsw13's posts 🙂

where's the redundancy?

Theres been loads 🙂

I believe they've been cutting back on IT stuff for a while

http://witterpedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=AALS

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If anyone needs to check up on a flight, send me a PM, and I can have a dig around, see what is happening. It always takes days to get back to normal once aircraftvand crews are out of position.

I flew back over the Atlantic last night - usually full of BA call signs - didn't hear a single one.