[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] FW: American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby

[John P. Rudy]

The two digit year is due to the fact that IBM cards were 80 columns and we didn’t have two more to waste.  That, ultimately, resulted in a bunch of Y2K issues

 

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American Airlines’s Sabre system was the first user of the IBM Mainframe transaction processing system, cleverly named TPS. Since this was implemented in the early 1960s, I’m sure this used the common 2-digit date notation and would have had the referenced problem. 

 

Since then, Sabre was spun off into a separate company, called of all things, the Sabre Corporation.  I believe AA now uses the IATA NDC system for booking, but it is accessed via the Sabre system APIs. So, it is very possible that the problem is a remnant of the old Sabre system bug.

 

Stan

 

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Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] FW: American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby

 

Recall that AA pioneered Sabre in 1960. The first online reservation system. I wonder if this "feature" was introduced back then?


 

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On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 1:14 PM Ken Pogran via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us <mailto:lctg at lists.toku.us> > wrote:

Is it American Airlines or is it "the airport computer system" that's to blame? The article mentions both and is ambiguous on that point. And the reporter does not seem to have bothered to contact American Airlines for comment.

On the other hand, I'm glad the last time I traveled by air with my dad (on American, as it happens) he was only 96.

Ken Pogran 

carllazarus--- via LCTG wrote on 4/28/24 2:43 PM:

Is American Airlines software really that primitive?  This is almost a Y2K problem.

-- Carl

 

Carl Lazarus

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American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

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