Bound to Fail: CMR's Christmas IT Disaster

[captainv]

http://www.cio.com/article/112103/Comair_s_Chirstmas_Disaster_Bound_To_Fail

 

[crjdxr]

May 01, 2005 — CIO — When Eric Bardes joined the Comair IT department in 1997, one of the very first meetings he attended was called to address the replacement of an aging legacy system the regional airline utilized to manage flight crews.

Emphasis mine.

Or here: http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=53549&highlight=christmas+comair+it

Or here:http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=45149&highlight=christmas+comair+it

 

[ReverseSensing]

Ahhh, good ol' SBS.

 

[crjdxr]

Ahhh, good ol' SBS.

She's a beaut, ain't she?

 

[wmuflyguy]

Delta kept a lid on capital expenditures at Comair, with unfortunate consequences.

A slight understatement.

SBS implemented a bridge solution, dividing the legacy system into two modules—one for pilot schedule and another for flight attendant schedules—each with a 32,000 monthly limit of its own.

So we didn't actually fix the root of the problem. We can just make more changes now! I wouldn't be shocked if the system crashed again.

They say the new software should be ready by middle of next year...I'm taking the over.

 

[millhouse21]

Written in FORTRAN... Dang

 

[CRJ puppy]

That's an old article from 2 yrs ago that has been posted here before.

2 years ago.

Have we had THAT many new people in the past 2-3 yrs that they didn't know?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

(and thanks for the history lesson)

Oh, and for an update...SBS is still running the crew tracking at Comair. Maybe NEXT year for something new...haha, stay tuned!

:crying:

 

[~~~^~~~]

Yes but this is supposed to be a mild winter.

CVG running out of deicing fluid triggered all the re-routes and started the snowball rolling.

Uh, no pun intended, but it is a pretty good pun none the less.

 

[dispatchguy]

So I take it that Comair is still dispatching CRJs with a flight planning system from the early 1980s - Jeppesen's WXAir...

sad...

 

[KingAirKiddo]

The SBS system worked just fine when we flew Navajos, so there's no need to change it!

 

[crjdxr]

So I take it that Comair is still dispatching CRJs with a flight planning system from the early 1980s - Jeppesen's WXAir...

sad...

Not any more, no. JetPlan is the big winner!