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The state said it appreciated everyone’s patience and apologized for the inconvenience.ġ900 New York City High School Graduates Receive Post-it Note Diplomas A network problem affected motor vehicle offices across the state last month as well. A news release at the state’s website seemingly blamed the problem on a network issue.

SOUTHWEST FLIGHTS GROUNDED DRIVERS

The office, located in Colorado Springs, was still “able to address drivers licenses, recording and elections,” the paper said. On Saturday, Colorado's lone state motor vehicle office open on weekends was “ unable to provide new vehicle registrations, renewals or title work” because of a crash of the Colorado State Motor Vehicle system, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. The system was fixed by late Tuesday night, and normal operations resumed by Wednesday morning.

SOUTHWEST FLIGHTS GROUNDED LICENSE

The Utah DPS was able to get its back-up system working, which allowed the state’s law enforcement officers limited access to records, but all processing of license applications and renewals came to a halt.

The Tribune stated that the incident was the result of “a code-reading error involving a daily transfer of motor vehicle records from the state Tax Commission to a DPS database.” Last Tuesday, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that a “ database error” crashed the state’s drivers license records system. Last week saw the motor vehicle systems in both Utah and Colorado suffer outages. Utah and Colorado Motor Vehicle Systems Have Problems No other airline at the airport reported having any problems. American delayed flights, but reportedly did not cancel any. Regardless of the true cause, the problem caused United to cancel six flights and delay several others. It caused problems for several hours before the issue was resolved by 9 a.m.” CBS News, on the other hand, reported that United Airlines said the problem, which took out their computer systems and phones, was a power outage that began at about 4:45 a.m. The AP reported that an airport spokesperson said there was a “connectivity issue” that “started early Wednesday morning in a computer system at a ticketing counter. However, American's problem-whose cause has, to my knowledge, never been disclosed-affected its back-up system as well.Īmerican Airlines, along with United, had another computer-related system problem last Wednesday, but it was localized to Philadelphia International Airport. Southwest also seemed to do a good job in being able to get its customers who were scheduled to be aboard the canceled flights rebooked: there was little grousing in the press from disgruntled Southwest passengers.Īs you may remember, American Airlines had to cancel 970 flights and delay another 1068 when a computer problem hit mid-morning on a Tuesday and lasted for only 90 minutes more than Southwest’s snafu. Southwest said it “sincerely apologized” for the “airport technology issue.” Luckily, the failure hit late on a Friday night, instead of first thing Monday morning. The airline was able to get its back-up system operational, although the system's performance was said to be “sluggish.” Southwest got its primary system back up and operating normally by early Saturday, but the airline indicated it still wasn’t exactly sure of the source of the problem. The computer failure, a Southwest spokesperson told the AP, “impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of each aircraft.” Planes on the taxiways were recalled to the terminals although planes in flight were unaffected.

The airline also had to cancel another 17 flights early Saturday morning because crews and equipment were in the wrong place. Flights in Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver and San Diego were said to be affected. PDT, but not before the airline had to cancel 43 flights ( originally reported as 50) and delay about 250 others mostly west of the Mississippi River. domestic carrier, with 3400 flights daily, experienced a system-wide computer failure that grounded the airline’s entire fleet not already in the air, the AP reported. PDT, Southwest Airlines, the largest U.S. Southwest Airlines Computer Failure Cancels 57 Flights, Grounds Another 250 It was a slow week in the land of IT-related “ooftas.” We start off with one that could have been much worse if the timing had been different.

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