
Thousands of travelers were stranded at airports around the United States Friday night after a computer failure of United Airlines' reservation system.
United spokesman Charles Hobart confirmed the outage and said the airline apologized to customers.
"At approximately 7:15 pm CT tonight, United Airlines experienced a computer outage interrupting the airline's flight departures, airport processing and reservations systems," the airline said in statement. "Our technology team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Long lines of passengers formed at check-in counters at Chicago's O'Hare International and Denver International airports, two of United's largest hubs.
Passengers in Chicago told NBC station WMAQ that they were frustrated they were kept in line waiting for about two hours before any announcements came from the airline.
"I was only going home for 38 hours, so it's kind of cutting into that," said Sean Doyle, who was trying to board a 10:15 p.m. flight from Chicago to Denver.
"I'm a little cheesed, and I've been spending the entire time looking up who the new CEO of United Airlines is so I can compose a vitriol-filled note to him," said Kasey Madden, who was trying to fly to Minneapolis.
Comment: A bit of smokescreening going on here. The wording is not in the slightest objective in view of the facts.
According to Wikipedia: The point being - "The plan calls for a shutdown of its three unstable reactors by January 2012" - that you cannot shut down a complete melt down of Reactors 1-3 and 4-6 are already safe - generally. You can hope to reduce exposure and the affects of the radiation on the environment, but certainly the damage is done and ongoing, in some cases, dependent on the type of radiation, for billions of years. So how do you shut down something that has gone OUT OF CONTROL? See:
Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake
And from the article: Nuclear Fallout: You won't hear this on Mainstream News
..nuff said.