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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #15 on: 27 May 2017, 19:35:05 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 27 May 2017, 19:31:08
Your tone implied it. And I wouldn't want anyone to mistakenly link the two things ;)

No, honest there was no intention to link the two DG. Just making the point about us relying on all this wonderful technology. ;)
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #16 on: 27 May 2017, 19:38:16 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 27 May 2017, 19:28:44
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 27 May 2017, 19:23:15
Yesterday's baggage issue affected on terminal and was/is completely unrelated to today's episode.

It was exaggerated by the fact that next to nobody has the ability to manually process bags and people any more... 25 years ago, you wouldn't have noticed the snafu ;)

# Still the busiest and best single runway airport in the world. Ever.
   

Has nothing to do with it being your employers.
Personally no. I deliberately chose which airport I currently work at having spent time at the three alternatives.

Publicly I will always defend Gatwick. If I were to post something negative about it in a public forum, I would reasonably expect some form of disciplinary action.

I have no issue with this status quo as the personal and public are pretty well aligned ;)
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #17 on: 27 May 2017, 19:49:24 »
I have flown numerous times from Gatwick and I must say it is a great airport with it being better than Heathrow :y
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #18 on: 27 May 2017, 20:58:31 »
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #19 on: 27 May 2017, 21:11:08 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 27 May 2017, 20:58:31
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P

Not for me, Gatwick Express from Blackwater station straight to Gatwick station. :y
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #20 on: 27 May 2017, 21:27:18 »
Where they are blaming a power supply failure, I would expect dual redundant systems in different physical locations for such crucial infrastructure. A man with a whiteboard who turns up a few hours later is not a credible backup! ::) :o :o :o

Didn't anybody tell the directors, that 'hope' is not a strategy, but a disaster waiting to happen? ::) :-[ :-[ :-[

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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #21 on: 27 May 2017, 21:41:48 »
Agree. You can bet next week they will have the best there is.

I dare say tomorrow the news will be full of folk who experienced the usual " nothing from the company explaining what was happening".
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #22 on: 27 May 2017, 22:03:45 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 27 May 2017, 20:58:31
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P
Doesn't count... Anywhere east of Poole is a bastid for you to get to ::)
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #23 on: 27 May 2017, 22:07:11 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 27 May 2017, 20:58:31
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P
True....
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #24 on: 27 May 2017, 22:09:19 »
Quote from: Andy H on 27 May 2017, 22:07:11
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 27 May 2017, 20:58:31
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P
True....
Pish... You've got no excuse... at least four direct flights a day from Newquay ::)

* you probably live five minutes from Plymouth, so Newquay might be harder to get too :D
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #25 on: 28 May 2017, 14:48:59 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 27 May 2017, 20:58:31
It's a bastid of a place to get to though!  ::)  :P
That's it's biggest problem...  ...and for most, at the mercy of how the londonium ring road is feeling.
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #26 on: 28 May 2017, 18:27:20 »
How strange that no-one from BA has been interviewed about this. Could it be that no-one wants to answer the question: "Was this a cyber attack?" with a lie?
Having worked for them for 20 years, I would be very, very, surprised if their systems did not have back-ups for backups for backups, and so the line, that it was caused by a power failure, does not have the ring of veracity to it. :-X
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #27 on: 28 May 2017, 18:36:13 »
Wouldn't like to say... that said they are running all but one flight from Gatwick today, which highlights he contrast between their two London bases ::)
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #28 on: 29 May 2017, 19:07:13 »
Do we know if power surge was in India or not? Cannot believe back up systems not fit for purpose. CEO has to go. This is bad management whichever way you look at it?
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Re: BA global flights cancelled , computer problems
« Reply #29 on: 29 May 2017, 19:11:15 »
Union rep (I know) just been on the news and stated categorically that, if the IT hadn't been outsourced, this problem would have been fixed 'within minutes '.
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