Almost all the airlines use the same exact ticketing system called Sabre, so if it's only American airlines set it's down, just trying to guess if it's a technical or IT system, could it be screw scheduling / tracking / management systems? I have some reasonably deep airline work experience And I'm having a hard time trying to imagine what specific internal system to American airlines would cause airline operations to fail only in the American market. For instance, a failure in there take off weight calculation system would have global impacts, not just the United States, so I am really drawing a blank, here.
A technical issue grounding ALL flights...not believable
Threat maybe?
Almost all the airlines use the same exact ticketing system called Sabre, so if it's only American airlines set it's down, just trying to guess if it's a technical or IT system, could it be screw scheduling / tracking / management systems? I have some reasonably deep airline work experience And I'm having a hard time trying to imagine what specific internal system to American airlines would cause airline operations to fail only in the American market. For instance, a failure in there take off weight calculation system would have global impacts, not just the United States, so I am really drawing a blank, here.
Fun fact - Sabre was created by an American Airlines president and an IBM salesman. AA used SABRE first and other airlines followed.