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Jan 30, 2026 | 3:59 pm

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lincolnjkc

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Wow, so SHARES is done? Never thought this day would come before 2053. (Yes, SHARES and I think other IBM TPF-based reservation systems have a Y2K problem come 2053.)

I guess anyone in IT will expect problems - the question is how big.

I also wonder what differences we will see? Will we be able to make reservations > 330ish days in advance, will the discrepancies between the "reservation" and the "airport" sides disappear, etc.?

I also wonder if UA will end up making this a profit center - outsourcing to to other airlines, etc. like Apollo / SystemOne all over again?

So many questions...

I think it may be premature to call SHARES dead -- UA has been nibbling functionality and building things to sidecar SHARES but remember SHARES is more than just the PSS functionality.
The 330 day ticketing likely won't change regardless (and even if that wasn't a technical limitation... would UA really want to sell seats much further out when any number of changes in outside factors could change routes. times, aircraft types, etc. (Heck, for a while Frontier [maybe still?] Frontier wasn't selling anything past April 13...)

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