British Airway's 'global IT system failure' is due to 'power supply issue'

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/27/ba_it_systems_failure_down_to_power_supply_issue/

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BA has not specified where the power issues occurred and we have asked them about this.

The airline's IT teams are working "tirelessly" to fix the problems, said Cruz.

This time last year, BA tech union reps were pleading with the Home Office airline not to outsource IT jobs to Tata Consultancy Services in India.

Regarding statements from the GMB trade union suggesting there was a link between the current problems and the IT redundancies and the outsourcing of some work to TCS last year, the airline told The Reg: "We would never compromise the integrity and security of our IT systems.

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Since The Register is a UK publication and British Airways is, you know, the comments here are very interesting:

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/05/27/ba_it_systems_failure_down_to_power_supply_issue/

[Turbineguy]

1. The rise of the MBA's

Saving money on mission critical equipment and people.

I used to think that it was too many lawyers. But the last two disaster Presidents have been MBA's.

Of course, if all the young people I advise to become morticians do just that, it would become a problem too.

[democratisphere]

2. We'll need more morticians if the redumbliCON healthcare system is installed.

Good call!