Jun 15, 2018, 11:01 am
Last edit by: JDiver
dave_261 posted “AA just posted this on Twitter: Our partner PSA Airlines is experiencing a technical issue and all flights are cancelled. The first available is tomorrow (15 Jun 2018) evening at 5:54p.
Computer glitch grounds OH / PSA Airlines opt’d Eagle flights 14-15 Jun 2018
Jun 15, 2018, 6:17 am
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You would really struggle with an economic argument to break up PSA's ~300 CLT departures over three or four carriers to avoid a rare problem like this. You would have crew (scheduling) and aircraft (can't be flown by another carrier) inefficiencies up the wazoo.
Jun 15, 2018, 8:58 am
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Was stranded at HPN last night trying to fly into CLT. Spent an hour on hold to get moved to a 6:15am flight out of LGA. Was really grumpy until I saw pictures of what CLT looked like. Holy cow what a nightmare.
Jun 15, 2018, 1:07 pm
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Looks like AA is giving out bonus miles due to this. I just received 15,000 miles, which I believe I was far more than fair... as I didn’t even have a flight scheduled yesterday/today. Thanks, American?
Jun 15, 2018, 1:25 pm
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Jun 15, 2018, 1:54 pm
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Jun 15, 2018, 2:31 pm
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Not the point I was making. Computer glitches can and have happened at every airline, but this is worse for AA because they make it a point to have a lot of regional traffic on one air carrier at their second largest operation. PSA is basically centered around CLT operations (and a little flying out of PHL/DCA) and there are only a few Republic/Piedmont flights into/out of CLT. So in this case if PSA goes down their CLT operations are screwed and there is very little help from other carriers to pick up the slack.