United Airlines nationwide goundstop

[bwframe]

 

[dieselrealtor]

 

[indykid]

Lifted as of 2:00PM eastern per WIBC radio.

 

[bwframe]

Sorry, if this was a false alarm. FNC made it look like a concern.

 

[Mgderf]

Probably blame it on supply chain issues, and COVID...

 

[BluePig]

So glad I don't have to deal with all that cr@p for work anymore.
Sucks rocks being stuck in the airport.
Worse when you have no control over anything.

 

[bwframe]

You'd think mayor Pete would be on all the news stations, saying "all is well?"

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

You'd think mayor Pete would be on all the news stations, saying "all is well?"

He’ll come riding up on his bike when it’s time to make the announcement.

 

[xwing]

This exact thing has happened before. It would be nice if United could figure it out...

 

[Cameramonkey]

This exact thing has happened before. It would be nice if United could figure it out...

Maybe maybe not.

They just said “computer problems”. It could be any number of factors. The last time could’ve been a database issue. This time could’ve been an application server issue.

A computer glitch is not a computer glitch is not a computer glitch.

 

[cbhausen]

Alpha Male Extraordinaire Peter Butt Judge went all Mr. Tough Guy on them again and look how fast they got their act together!

 

[***Ironhead***]

You'd think mayor Pete would be on all the news stations, saying "all is well?"

He is probably to busy with his friends, and I am guessing he hates to leave his friends behind.

 

[d.kaufman]

He is probably to busy with his friends, and I am guessing he hates to leave his friends behind.

What you did there, I see it

 

[xwing]

Maybe maybe not.

They just said “computer problems”. It could be any number of factors. The last time could’ve been a database issue. This time could’ve been an application server issue.

A computer glitch is not a computer glitch is not a computer glitch.

I work in IT. I'm sure it's not the exact same bug each time. But if their infrastructure is so fragile that it several times fails to the point requiring a full ground stop, it is a systemic issue that reflects poorly upon United Airlines. I would expect a firm of this size in this time-critical industry to have full warm-backups of all critical systems and be able to switch over in minutes.

 

[rosejm]

I would expect a firm of this size in this time-critical industry to have full warm-backups of all critical systems and be able to switch over in minutes.

You would think so, but based on the experiences I've had those "DR" systems are not really all that useful.

A company that truly wants this kind of capability runs their operations in an A/B state and makes the changeover part of their normal operating procedures. There are very few of them out there due to the perceived cost.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I also work in IT. Earlier this year I just decommissioned a true hot spare server pair. Software running on the primary woud mirror. All database writes in real time. I could have the back up system functional within 15 minutes, and that is only because that is how long it takes DNS changes to propagate.

He was relatively easy, but that doesn’t scale well. When you start talking entire racks of clustered servers to do this, it gets very very very expensive. And I’m sure nobody wants to spend that money. Especially since it’s all custom stuff not off the shelf commodity software.

 

[littletommy]

Sorry, if this was a false alarm. FNC made it look like a concern.

Was it a “bombshell” announcement with “horrific” consequences? That seems to be how foxnews headlines everything anymore.

 

[Brandon]

Friend who works for united said the computer(s) were down for about 10 minutes.

 

[bwframe]

Friend who works for united said the computer(s) were down for about 10 minutes.

How much of a problem is this for those in the air at the time?

 

[Brandon]

How much of a problem is this for those in the air at the time?

From how he explained it, it was communication from their dispatch office to the planes. When they can't communicate they have to do a ground stop?

That said he didn't make it to seem that anyone on board other than the pilots would know there "was a problem".