Southwest Airlines is delaying hundreds of computer crashes

Southwest Airlines, the world's largest loukoster, which is based in the United States, delayed several hundred flights due to a computer crash. Reports about it Associated Press.

The problem arose on Sunday morning, October 11, when the airline was unable to check the availability of tickets for passengers who had not printed boarding passes due to an error in the program. As a result, 450 flights were delayed that day.

The airline asked passengers to arrive at the airports at least two hours before departure and to have documents in their printed form. According to Southwest Airlines spokesman Brad Hawkins (Brad Hawkins), there is no indication that the failure occurred as a result of hacking.

On Monday, October 12, software problems have not yet been resolved. Passenger Emily Mitnick (Emily Mitnick), who was supposed to fly out of Denver airport, said that in the queue for registration gathered about a thousand people.

In mid-September, American Airlines 525 flights were delayed due to a computer crash. Then problems with departures arose in the states of Texas, Illinois and Florida.

Southwest Airlines is considered the world's largest low-cost airline in terms of the number of passengers carried. Every day, the airline makes about 3,6 thousands of flights. The carrier operates flights on Boeing-737 aircraft.

This is not the first time that passengers suffer from human error. So, in late July, New York Airport went out due to the fact that contractors accidentally cut the electrical cable.

In September, an American Airlines aircraft mistakenly flew away in the other direction.

Previously "Forum" писалthat the cabin crew made a list of the most ridiculous questions from passengers. The most common is the question of where the aircraft is currently located, in second place is the strange question of whether it is possible to fly lower and an equally odd request to stop the turbulence.