Old is gold . Southwest Airlines Saved From Global IT Outage Thanks To 32-Year-Old Microsoft System

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Except last year when their old-ass scheduling system collapsed during peak holiday travel and stranded thousands and thousands of passengers for over a week. I think that cost them around $1.2bn in fines and lost revenue.

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How is advertising to the world that they maintain an outdated and vulnerable single point of failure system supposed to be a flex?

A broken clock is still right twice a day

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https://simpleflying.com/southwest-airlines-old-system-unaffected-it-outage/

These take me back to sitting in the treehouse in the 80s toking away.

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Better sometimes, worse sometimes. Their old systems led to massive issues a year or two ago. And it looked worse because it was only them having the issue then, whereas now it was everyone who used crowdstrike.

Another great example of companies are better off by not buying into bull$hit transformation initiatives 😂

Southwest would have benefited from a few upgrades here and there…

They need to bring back those facing seats so you can awkwardly fight for the armrest while staring at randos

Those TRS-80s were good machines

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