On Fox News (the fox friends show) this morning (Feb 4 1999) They briefly mentioned that the airlines had spent "billions" (their words not actual number) to fix their reservation systems to be year 2000 compliant. They said that today was the first day that you could reserve a ticket for a flight in 2000. So they had someone there call and attempt to reserve flights at 5 different airlines. Only one flight could be reserved the other 4 failed. Whole thing was dismissed with a cutesie comment about which 5 people on staff were trying to leave the country.

In general this is the worst show that Fox News airs but I found this interesting that it didn't seem to bother them that here was a significant problem that if not fixed soon will begin to impact the airline industry.

Can anyone else confirm that the airline reservation system has a problem? Any travel agents out there.....

LM

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), February 04, 1999

Answers

****wondering how many bogus reservations will be made to "Test" the reservation system..*****

-- Mr_Kennedy (wondering@public.curiosity), February 04, 1999.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990203/bwf.html

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), February 04, 1999.

wow LM! I just posted a similar question regarding a short blurb on ABC. The Fox story was much more in depth. 1 out of 5 isn't a great average.

Mike ====================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), February 04, 1999.

I work at an Internet business travel software company.

I'd be interested in knowing what CRS (Carrier Reservation System) and airline they were trying to book. There are a lot of non-Y2K reasons a booking might fail.

I booked 8 out of 8 of the flights I tested. I did four on Apollo and four on SABRE. I used 3 different airlines--United, American and Delta--flying DFW-ORD and LAX-DCA.

-- Tod (muhgi@yahoo.com), February 04, 1999.

Others are having problems related to return flights across the rollover and Feb 29th leap year date in 2000. See the link below.

http://x7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=440677628&threaded=1&CONTEXT=91817 4080.969408807&hitnum=145

LM

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), February 04, 1999.

Thanks for the link Gayla. 5years and a billion dollars and it still doesn't work right. This is encouraging ;>)

LM

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), February 05, 1999.