Apparently the all of the computer systems for US Airways are currently offline.
From NYC Aviation:
US Airways’ computer system—including their website—reportedly crashed Friday evening, crippling the airline’s flight check-ins nationwide and leaving hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers grounded.
For more on this story read on.
Could always be worse…
(Image used under CC from slideshow bob)
HT to Brian Honan
UPDATE: “US Airways tells us a data center power outage at a Phoenix data center has knocked out their airport and web-based computer systems.” < -so a power loss to ONE data center took out all of their computer systems? Holy hell.
Ah, I remember this. This was the day I was stuck in Charlotte, and to avoid having to stay overnight, I took a flight to Chattanooga instead of Knoxville (home). Because of freak hail storms we had a month or two earlier in East Tennessee, there were no rental cars available in Chattanooga. Instead, I had to take a $212 taxi to Knoxville airport, where I picked up my car in long-term parking and went home.
By the way, US Airways employees were really shitty during the outage, and I haven’t used USAir since, unless I absolutely had to due to lack of choices to get somewhere.
I also took a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanabriaclan/6085608329/in/set-72157627406429889/