BA systems down globally

[FourWheelDrift]

justinio said:

Cold said:

BA are citing a "power supply issue" as the reason behind the IT systems failure.

Cleaners have unplugged the server again.

[ruggedscotty]

[RizzoTheRat]

Well that's me having a boring weekend on my own in Holland as the wife was planning to come out for half term and I was going to take some of next week off to do some tourism and lounging on the beach. She can't even get rebooked on to a flight on Monday at the moment

[CAPP0]

RizzoTheRat said:

Well that's me having a boring weekend on my own in Holland

Isn't Amsterdam in Holland?

[Vaud]

RizzoTheRat said:

Well that's me having a boring weekend on my own in Holland as the wife was planning to come out for half term and I was going to take some of next week off to do some tourism and lounging on the beach. She can't even get rebooked on to a flight on Monday at the moment

Can she not get on another carrier?

Otherwise, Utrecht is quite a nice town to spend an day.

[RizzoTheRat]

It is but it's fecking hot and I live by the beach so was looking forward to icecream and scantily clad wife rather than coke, hookers and an hour each way on a train

[Chrisgr31]

Interesting this is not the only data centre I have heard about going down this week, wonder if the issues are connected.

[loafer123]

RizzoTheRat said:

Well that's me having a boring weekend on my own in Holland as the wife was planning to come out for half term and I was going to take some of next week off to do some tourism and lounging on the beach. She can't even get rebooked on to a flight on Monday at the moment

Drive it, or drive to Ebbsfleet and change trains at Lille, surely?

[RizzoTheRat]

Big knock on effect with people booking out other airlines straight away, nothing with EasyJet available until Monday. According to Skyscanner the only direct flight still available for Sunday is a KLM one at about 5-6 times the price I usually pay for EasyJet or BA.

Nothing on Eurostar until Monday either.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Saturday 27th May 20:47

[Vaud]

RizzoTheRat said:

It is but it's fecking hot and I live by the beach so was looking forward to icecream and scantily clad wife rather than coke, hookers and an hour each way on a train

Then settle for icecream, peace and a view...

[Sheepshanks]

Vaud said:

No date on it, but apparently they have 6 DCs

https://www.ait-pg.co.uk/our-work/british-airways/

They're all in the same place though.

[Cold]

A little video from CEO Alex Cruz giving a brief explanation (of what we already know) and offering apologies. Makes a change for a CEO to step up so early on.

Twitter link

[iphonedyou]

Yipper said:

BA has been hacked. Shares will be down sharply on Tues.

You're an odd poster.

[WestyCarl]

Power supply problem

[Vaud]

iphonedyou said:

Yipper said:

BA has been hacked. Shares will be down sharply on Tues.

You're an odd poster.

The latter part is probably true, at least for Tuesday.

[JD]

iphonedyou said:

You're an odd poster.

Have Yipper and Welshbeef ever been seen in the same room together..?

[Vaud]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

PR person saying "stick this on, you will look more "hands on""

[WestyCarl]

Anyone more IT savy than me seriously think that the "power supply issue" is genuine. Our 2-bit, 30 staff company, has all servers on UPS, etc, I can't believe BA don't have any power outage backup (and test it regularly!).

Has "power supply issue" become the new excuse?

[scrwright]

There are a multitude of suppliers into BA now, wonder which one cocked up. I did sit through a tedious sales pitch by SCC last year who harped on about supporting BA infrastructure, wonder if it was them.

[Smiler.]

WestyCarl said:

Anyone more IT savy than me seriously think that the "power supply issue" is genuine. Our 2-bit, 30 staff company, has all servers on UPS, etc, I can't believe BA don't have any power outage backup (and test it regularly!).

Has "power supply issue" become the new excuse?

If true, I'd guess that all their power is derrived via a single main LV panel (normal supply & generator) with no parallel redundant paths & that panel has experienced a catastrophic failure.

There should also be parallel redundancy in the server structure too so for everything to go offline, some serious issues and/or chronic failings in their infrastructure design & maintenence.

Nothing would surprise me.