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?
Quite the opposite I believe, I understand Delta have not outsourced their IT preferring to keep it all in house. airlines are airlines and their core competency the airline game and not the IT game. Sometimes it’s best to outsource a key function to a company whose core competency it is. Don’t assume outsourcing is bad; after all as SLF we outsource our travel arrangements every time we get on board an aircraft and I can assure you that's a lot safer than me trying to fly myself everwhere