Another day, another IT glitch. United Airlines this time. Allegedly at 11:30p last night a faulty software update was loaded to a system that supplies flight planning data to pilots. Reports of delays throughout the country are filtering in on Flyertalk. There is no ground stop: pilots can still calculate weight and balance the old fashioned way on pen and paper — but it is creating delays for many flights this morning.
Is your United flight delayed this morning?
Sitting on the tarmac in jersey right now. “No flight plan” seems to be the main problem at the moment… jeesh
Delayed UA 125 LAS-LAX. the board says possible weather delay… yup
UA 1530 MCO-EWR delayed over an hour and half. Nearly all departures from 9-12pm at MCO were delayed
If delays caused by faulty software are misattributed to “weather”, and that exempts the airline from the liability they would properly bear for those delays, is that fraud?
That’s what I would call it…