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http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters19991209_2647.htmlKLM will park all of it's planes except for 2 for roll over. Besides saying demand wasn't there, the also commented..
""We decided to cancel most of the flights because there was no demand, although business between Christmas and New Year has increased by 50 percent."
But he added: "KLM is the first airline to acknowledge that everything may not be okay. We are not convinced that all areas of the transportation chain in the world are ready."
Baas declined to comment on which areas of the world KLM thought were not Y2K compliant."
Everything might not be ok... understatement of the millennia :)
-- C (c@c.com), December 09, 1999
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http://library.northernlight.com/FA19991209960000016.html?cb=0&dx=1006 &sc=0#docStory Filed: Thursday, December 09, 1999 7:40 AM EST
Millennium LUANDA (Dec. 9) XINHUA - The Angolan Air Transporter (TAAG) has been advised to put up its Boeing 747 planes at the turn of the year to avoid possible accidents caused by information chaos, an official source said here on Tuesday.
It is the producer of the planes who made this recommendation, said Angola's Vice Minister of Science and Technology Pedro Teta, who is responsible for eliminating the "millennium bug" in the country.
But the final decision is up to the management of the civil aviation company, he said.
The information chaos problem Y2K, known as the "millennium bug" in computers, has thrown shadow over the Angolan civil aviation sector which has to spend a lot money in dealing with the fatal problem and avoiding disastrous results.
Teta further suggested that the banks in the country should also close from December 27, 1999 to January 2, 2000.
According to the Angolan government, the country has yet to spend 20 million U.S. dollars in curbing the "bug", which will probably threaten the country's telecommunication, civil aviation, financial sector and banks.
-- Homer Beanfang (Bats@inbellfry.com), December 09, 1999.