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Alaska Airlines IT outage

From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 21 05:37:48 2025

My BIL's flight to Seattle was cancelled while he was
on the plane.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-grounds-all-mainline-flights-nationwide-faa-says/VW4X75B7SZED5MQMY6SCQE57GE/

Their systems were down for a couple of hours. I don't know
what they use, but can't help but wonder...

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From vallor@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Jul 21 16:33:27 2025

On 21 Jul 2025 05:37:48 GMT, vallor <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

My BIL's flight to Seattle was cancelled while he was on the plane.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-grounds-all-mainline-

flights-nationwide-faa-says/VW4X75B7SZED5MQMY6SCQE57GE/

Their systems were down for a couple of hours. I don't know what they
use, but can't help but wonder...

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transformation/how-alaska-airlines-uses-technology-to-ensure-its-passengers-have-a-seamless-journey-from-ticket-purchase-to-baggage-pickup/

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From jojo@21:1/5 to vallor on Tue Jul 22 00:44:48 2025

vallor wrote:

My BIL's flight to Seattle was cancelled while he was
on the plane.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-grounds-all-mainline-flights-nationwide-faa-says/VW4X75B7SZED5MQMY6SCQE57GE/

Their systems were down for a couple of hours. I don't know
what they use, but can't help but wonder...

airlines use windows right? that windows update thing which happened.

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