I had to laugh. If I didn’t, I’d cry.
Air flights over the UK are suffering major disruption, yesterday and today, due to “a fault”. No shit, Sherlock!
In typical reserved Great Britain, did anybody think to ask what fault? Cyber attack? That’s pretty dangerous if somebody can break into Air Traffic Control systems, surely they need beefing up? Underinvestment? Or rather, funds that should have been invested, going to pay somebody’s bonus instead? Maybe “just” somebody not doing their job properly? Or spilling their morning coffee over their computer?
I’m all ears. I detest the lack of transparency in our society.
It seems I’m not the only one unimpressed:
It is not acceptable that UK Nats [the UK Air Traffic Control service] simply allow their computer systems to be taken down, and everybody’s flights get cancelled or delayed.
Michael O’Leary, Ryanair CEO
Mister Bump 
It’s been a summer of delays everywhere, a lot from the unstable weather.
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Then they should say as much.
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Nightmare! Hope you’re not flying.
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No I don’t fly. But I’d be mighty pissed if someone kept me waiting for hours because of “a fault”.
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Oh I would be raging 🙊
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And all the cutesy neotechies slobber all over themselves and their trackballs when someone mentions AI. Children should not be allowed to play with computer software. Computer children that grow up (chronologically speaking, that is) should not be allowed to breed.
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Bear in mind that we don’t even know it was computers. We aren’t told.
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It was apparently a bit of faulty flight data from National Air Traffic Service, and the system ground to halt to keep accurate info flowing to the traffic controllers.
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Maybe they read my post?
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😁😁👍
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Not just in the UK! Flying home from Texas there was a 3 hour ground stop at Dulles so my connecting flight in Houston was delayed 😫
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I haven’t done any air travel for more than 10 years and I’m absolutely happy with that.
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I love to fly but apparently there were horrible t storms in northern Virginia which Dulles decided to halt all air travel in and out for 3 hours. Next time I’ll take the first flight home lesson learned
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Flying is expensive. In terms of carbon. So I do none these days out of choice.
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