Airport outage: Delta CEO to seek repayment for lost revenue

[thegriffinpages]

Well if we wait several more months, replacement generators will be on sale on Ebay from Puerto Rico....

 

[Murdoughnut]

Seems reasonable, however, aren't most airports and utilities mostly revenue neutral or negative. I'm not equating airports to a sport stadium, but isn't eventually gonna be a cost passed to Georgia tax payers?

Asking. This isn't a big part of my knowledge set.

Nope. We clear about $40m in profits on nearly $300m in total revenue. We have the ability to levy ad lorem taxes, but haven't done so since 1971.

 

[NovemberEcho]

I'm sure that the airlines found a way to blame all the delays on ATC

 

[B767]

I'm sure that the airlines found a way to blame all the delays on ATC

So you guys know about that? That’s my go to. If I’m in the terminal having a constitutional and get back to the plane late I put the delay code on ATC for “flow.”

 

[NovemberEcho]

So you guys know about that? That’s my go to. If I’m in the terminal having a constitutional and get back to the plane late I put the delay code on ATC for “flow.”

My flights from DEN-LGA last week was delayed 90 min, you hear the announcement, the inevitable "due to ATC restraints" then my lone voice through the terminal "oh come on!"

 

[milleR]

My flights from DEN-LGA last week was delayed 90 min, you hear the announcement, the inevitable "due to ATC restraints" then my lone voice through the terminal "oh come on!"

If you'd been manning a station instead of ski bumming out in Colorado maybe the flight could have left on time ...

 

[NovemberEcho]

If you'd been manning a station instead of ski bumming out in Colorado maybe the flight could have left on time ...

I did make some calls to try and get us through the GDP but no luck this time lol

 

[Malko]

Spe

Not unprecedented.

Back in the day at Northernjets, the telephony contractor guaranteed redundant fiber lines to the IT center. As it turns out, their idea of redundant was two, separate fiber lines....that ran through the same conduit. Sven & Ollee were out with their backhoe, tore up the conduit, and poof...IT and all the mainframes are on an island. Parked a bunch of bowling shoes for a couple days. Bad scene.

There was some sort of payment agreement. I seem to recall it was "substantial".

Spent a bit of time working there in Building J........Do recall much the same.......Wanna talk about people running around...Bad thing is there was 0 that could eb done at the time.

 

[Malko]

I wasn’t there! I swear... I can tell you CAK has a dual supply from two separate grids as well as remote generators. Put out the fire throw the transfer switch and your back up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mpls much the same.... Draw from two different cities....

 

[FloridaLarry]

... Put out the fire, throw the transfer switch and your back up.

The problem with redundancy is that there inevitably is some place that the dual sources meet or cross. This creates the possibility of a single-point failure.

In Complex's CAK example, suppose the transfer switch is taken out by the fire. It's more complex to design around any crossover, but I'm sure some engineer has figured out a way around it. And that some manager has calculated the odds, and said that the solution was too costly for a 'never-happen' scenario.

Most people live and learn. A few don't.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Mpls much the same.... Draw from two different cities....

Knock on wood but I doubt this sort of thing would ever happen up this way.

(or if it did, we'd have bigger problems)

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

... Put out the fire, throw the transfer switch and your back up.

The problem with redundancy is that there inevitably is some place that the dual sources meet or cross. This creates the possibility of a single-point failure. In Complex's CAK example, suppose the transfer switch is taken out by the fire. It's more complex to design around any crossover, but I'm sure some engineer has figured out a way around it. And that some manager has calculated the odds, and said that the solution was too costly for a 'never-happen' scenario. Most people live and learn. A few don't.

I know in a college campus it’s now a loop system so any one transfer failure and campus can be fees fro. The other side. Now why entire internet goes down on campus when one building is powered down is the question of the day.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk