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Old Jun 5, 2015, 11:36 am
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JohnnyAwesome23
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Originally Posted by UALOneKPlus
If there's one take-away from all of this... Southwest needs to look at switching to Amazon web services to scale up servers and storage rapidly to accommodate site-crashing events like this.

Still waiting for a call back from Southwest to clarify some bookings... sigh...
Well the domestic side is still on that ancient reservation system, but... when they fully switch to Amadeus' Altea suite for domestic, it should have cloud based demand scaling. The only reservation system I know of that uses is Amazon cloud, is RADIXX and no way could RADIXX handle Southwest.
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