Computer glitch delays Air Canada departures
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After splashing out with Celine Dion concerts and parties for staff, it was as if Air Canada woke with a hangover Wednesday morning, when the reservation computer crashed.
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Passengers are warned of possible delays at Luton Airport after an incident involving a private aircraft.
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Millions of airline passengers are stuck in planes on the ground every year at U.S. airports with nearly 60,000 departures delayed between one and two hours in 2006, government figures show.
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(InfoWorld) - United Airlines was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed. The outage occurred between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Central Time, causing delays across the country. In total, about 268 domestic and international flights were delayed, United said. The average delay time was an hour and a half. "We continue to work hard to resume operations by tomorrow morning and kindly ask for our customers' patience," the airline carrier said in a statement. United does not know what caused the outage but said that it "affected the systems that United uses to dispatch flights for departure." The glitch delayed five United flights at Las Vegas International Airport, said Richard Viera, general manager of United operations there. "We had a system outage, and we worked with local people from United along with people from headquarters," said Viera. The outage disrupted operations for about one-and-a-half hours, but no flights were cancelled, and Viera had no complaints from Las Vegas passengers. "It went pretty well," he said. By late afternoon, United flights were moving on time in Las Vegas. This is the second time this month that a computer malfunction has caused significant delays in the U.S. On June 8, one of the two systems used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to manage flight plans failed, causing flight delays and cancellations across the country.
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Passengers at Heathrow airport face further disruption, with 12 flights so far cancelled
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Flying today? Not with those cases you're not Heathrow's Terminal 4 was yesterday hit by a software glitch which affected its baggage-handling capacity, the knock-on effect of which means that some passengers travelling have been told to leave any hold baggage at home.â¦
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Lufthansa had to cancel about 60 European flights, and its services around the world were delayed following a computer fault in its check-in system on Thursday, the German airline said.
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A United Airlines computer malfunction halted all departures systemwide for two hours Wednesday, the carrier said.
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A transatlantic flight from London to   Boston had to make an emergency diversion after one passenger   made an unexpected early arrival.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Canada's air security authority was blaming human error, not its procedures, Sunday after a breach at the Halifax International Airport forced police to remove 900 people from the departure area.
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An Air Canada flight is diverted to Ireland after a pilot apparently suffers a mental breakdown.
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For thousands of airline passengers, it took days for their bags to be delivered after a shortage of baggage handlers at US Airways, a computer problem at Comair and snowstorms disrupted holiday travel.
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A glitch at U.S. Airways yesterday affected self-serve kiosks used by about two-thirds of the airlines' customers, causing long lines and delays that affected air travel even today.
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The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.
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US Airways passengers at Logan International Airport and other US Airways hubs faced a second day of long check-in lines and delayed flights yesterday after a computer system upgrade generated a host of glitches.
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A new online method for trying to resolve travelers' problems boarding planes looks like a typical phishing attack. In 27B Stroke 6.
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The Department of Transportation will investigate a computer glitch that stranded U.S. travelers over the weekend.