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More than 440,000 delays were reported in July.
The Federal Aviation Administration has said it
anticipates a record number of delays by year's end.

The Dallas Morning News

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), August 26, 2000

Answers

This (edited) article validates that aviation has been affected by Y2K Bug related "bottleneck" problems. It's not just crashes and near-misses at midnight World Time, due to embedded systems snapping at a day roll with "00" in the year field. It's also less spectacular and newsworthy, but noisome delays. ----------- DOT Secretary Meets with Consumer Groups on Aviation Delays U.S. Newswire, 24 Aug 16:23 202-638-4000; Web site: http://www.acap1971.org

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater met for the first time today with aviation consumer representatives to hear their solutions to airline flight delays. Solutions proposed by Aviation Consumer Action Project (ACAP) . . . [mentioned nothing about solving Y2K Bug related problems]

At present one of four flights is delayed over an hour, and about one in 30 is canceled. There has been a 35 percent increase in delays since 1998. U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770 08/24 16:23 Copyright 2000, U.S. Newswire

-- Robert Riggs (rxr.999@worldnet.att.net), August 27, 2000.


Too many unanswered questions concerning aviation delays and mishaps. I'm surprised that Y2K has been mentioned at all. Let's just pray there will be no disasters.

-- Ruth Angell (bar@bpsinet.com), August 27, 2000.

Can someone provide the exact quote that mentions Y2K? and a more precise URL for the article.

Thanks,

-- Paula Gordon (pgordon@erols.com), August 28, 2000.


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