British Airways
We've had electricity and gas for well over a century now ....even motor cars
We've had television and radar since the 40's, sent objects into space, we've even sent human beings to the Moon all those decades ago
British Airways grounded virtually all of it's world network this weekend because of.......drum roll please .....an IT outage ....ruining trips for hundreds of thousands and stranded a lot of passengers overseas too
Not even extra chairs, refreshment vouchers or any water for those in need and in most cases not a single human being (Customer service rep) to be found .....I'd imagine the website was down too and any phone calls to rebook were greeted with a robotic message simply stating .....""Our call volumes are high right now, please try calling back in about three or four weeks time"".....LOL
So much for technology ......Airlines have been flying people around the world since the 1930's, in the old days , you had paper tickets, some even hand written, there were simple head counts, your seat number was a Bingo number licked and stuck on a postcard size boarding pass and even the plane's engines needed generators to start them and you could even get a hot meal and a beer on long routes and even your bags made it to your destination in most instances (may have been ransacked and robbed if you flew out of Heathrow) but at least you still had deodorant, underwear and socks on arrival, you could even take a full bottle of shampoo with you back then ....but rarely were there any delays apart from bad weather or the odd strike ......Couldn't even blame an erupting volcano in Iceland for this latest gargantuan mess up
So much for modern technology, eh ??
Automation and the micro chip .....and a mass increase in hackers will destroy us all eventually
LOL