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"So, we had People that were legal. We had aircraft that were available, but the process of matching those Crew Members with the aircraft could not be handled b
by mike_hearn 4y ago
"So, we had People that were legal. We had aircraft that were available, but the process of matching those Crew Members with the aircraft could not be handled by our technology. In our desired state, we have a solver that would be able to do that very quickly and accurately. Our system today cannot do that."
Sounds like at the core of it is some algorithms or IT systems that aren't sufficiently scalable and that have collapsed, forcing them to do manual work that also doesn't scale. Their upcoming "reset" is analogous to a similar situation that caused a Slack outage some years ago where the system got stuck in an overload state that it couldn't get out of and they had to effectively shut it down and re-open the service slowly to rewarm the caches.
- postalrat 4y agoSounds more like so many unknowns have built up in the system that it can't do it's job.
- snorkel 4y agoPartly IT but “network” to them means the entire operation including equipment, personnel, passengers, and cargo. Every flight requires a full legal rested crew, ground operations staff, etc. Because so many crews are in the wrong city at the most moment, or off-shift, Sounds like they’re trying to solve an 8th dimensional traveling salesman problem to staff each flight.
- paul_f 4y agoTurning it off and then back on again seems to solve so many problems.