The problem started early Monday morning in Atlanta, Delta's world-wide headquarters. I imagine that most SHARE attendees had blown town by then. It's been widely reported as a 'power failure', but there's a public squabble over whether the glitch occurred within Georgia Power's grid or within Delta's own internal power distribution network. As Ed says, the truth will eventually come out.
It's reported that the problem was exacerbated by Delta's recent pullback from inter-airline mutual bailout agreements. This reduced Delta's ability to rebook passengers on other carriers. The most public retrenchment involved American Airlines, whom Delta accused of benefitting from the agreement far more than Delta did. The message: Delta is so good that AA was more of a millstone than an ally. Maybe good, but not perfect. I fly Southwest, which had its own computer problems a couple of weeks earlier. SHARE managed to find a sweet spot in between the two airline FUBARs. Even Obama's Monday visit to Atlanta--literally across the street from the Marriott--seemed to have minimal impact on the conference. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 12:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: SHARE Atlanta proceedings Right. The news has been slow dribbling out. My nephew is a sysprog in Atlanta(not for Delta) but several of the neighbors are. We'll get the scoop eventually. In a message dated 8/9/2016 1:12:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 00000107ca423a92-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes: I think the problems started on Sunday? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN