Delta had a similar outage due to a datacenter fire, grounding all domestic flights. Southwest was uniquely slow in taking days to start up again. And if the way my American Airlines ticket switched my birthdate to January 1st, 2000 is any indication, many airlines still need to modernize.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2016/08/...
at the time, then-CEO now-chairman Gary Kelly said:
> "What's unique is the partial failure, it's never happened," he said. "This isn't a drill you can run."
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Delta had a similar outage due to a datacenter fire, grounding all domestic flights. Southwest was uniquely slow in taking days to start up again. And if the way my American Airlines ticket switched my birthdate to January 1st, 2000 is any indication, many airlines still need to modernize.