AC's ResIII computer system is down systemwide right now. They expect it to be up within about 45 minutes. From my speaking with an agent on the Elite Exec line, I think that the airport operations are being seriously impacted upon this evening.

The last time that I remember such an incident impacting on me, I was on a YYZ-YUL flight and we couldn't get a gate dispatch due to the inability of ResIII to function. My 1.25 hour flight ended up being about 4 hours. I also worked on the other end of system failures this summer at National Car Rental. Our system went down about 3 times while I was on duty over the summer. It's not fun, I can assure you. I can only imagine how much worse of a problem it is in the airline industry.

Anyone else have any horor stories with downed computer systems?