[AusNOG] Equinix Aircon failure

[Angelo Giuffrida]

>From what I've heard they're moving to Sabre -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system) - much more powerful
than Navitair's Open Skys/Skylights, so hopefully we see that plus much
more from their booking engine.


On Saturday, 10 November 2012, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> I just hope Virgin Australia do move to a proper booking system - if you
> fly internationally with an itinerary of more 2 flights to get to your
> destination then it's all a bit hard.  (You have to do it all by phone,
> they lose important facts like you're travelling with kids etc and so sit
> your kids randomly through the aircraft!).
>
> MMC
>
> On 09/11/2012, at 8:39 PM, John Lindsay <jlindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:
>
>  Then you've been punked. :-)
>
>  Actually I quite like flying with Virgin. Clean, new planes and super
> friendly staff.
>
>  You might enjoy it like a pile of other QF FFs have.
>
> jsl
>
> On 10/11/2012, at 3:06 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>
>  Neither actually. :) Not a Y or a Z
>
>  On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au>wrote:
>
>  You're gen-y or z right?
>
>  Think of it as a lesson in manners.
>
> jsl
>
> On 10/11/2012, at 2:29 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>
>  One thing I will say it's easy to back seat drive when you're not
> involved but realistically, such a critical system with no DR either in
> geographically diverse locations or even in the same DC but different rows,
> power supplies etc?
>
>  No DR still in my mind, recipe for disaster...
>
>  I feel for all those people jammed in Airports, I might add I was
> mocking the boss who is on a Virgin flight to day reminding him that QF
> remains unaffected ;) so he booked my next set of flights with Virgin as
> retribution.
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Michael Keating <mkeating44 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>  I made a similar comment in Twitter just now. One spot in one data
> centre for such a critical system?
>
>  Without knowing any details about their business, that seems rather
> slack and obviously doesn't work.
>
>  Michael Keating.
>
>
> On 10/11/2012, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>
>    It looks like the EQUNIX outage blew up airports Australia wide that
> use Navitare.... whoopsie.
>
>  Mind you, this is the second time Navitare has failed without a DR
> system... you'd think they learnt the first time around.
>
>  The outage was caused by a power failure at a Sydney data centre that
> affected the Navitaire reservations system, explained Jetstar spokesman
> Stephen Moynihan.
> Navitaire, a subsidiary of the American firm Accenture, provides check-in
> and boarding services to all four airlines.
> Virgin Australia spokeswoman Melissa Thomson said the airline would move
> to a new IT system next year and would no longer be using the service.
>
> Read more:
> http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/checkin-restored-further-dela<http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/checkin-restored-further-delays-expected-20121110-294k3.html#ixzz2BmtA2prQ>
>
>
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