Originally Posted by
413X3
Clearly these airlines have done little investment in IT systems and their own staff. Probably preferring to outsource everything and pay expensive consultants to come in once in a while. Splitting up your servers at various sites scattered around the country, or world, is expensive, but necessary when you rely on systems to do function as a company. Will airlines invest in their infrastructure rather than worrying about quarterly results and executive parachutes?
In fairness remember that all the major US carriers have only recently experienced real financial difficulty, with bankruptcy rife. That is a difficult environment in which to fund a major DP upgrade that does not provide immediate economic advantage and so these carriers have let their legacy systems soldier on too long.
This incident will remind their managements to reassess that decision.