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So all this air traffic control chaos is because their telephones aren't working 😆
http://www.nats.aero/news/update-statement-swanwick-techical-problem/
Don't they have mobile phones ? 😉
They do, but they're all frightened the NSA might be listening...
I reckon the cleaning lady unplugged the radar to plug in her Hoover. Or NATS had one hell of a Christmas party yesterday.
Hmmm. Their telecom provider must be shitting bricks!
Some very sarcastic pilots today. 😯
Just wait until its outsourced to the private sector.
Technically it already is.
Could be an ancient exchange that they haven't a spare piece for, or a modern internet-type one where the AD server has crashed (as per NHS Glasgow):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24378778
Also likely that they'll now spend a load of cash on a DR solution in a panic, rather than take a pre-failure measured approach.
The flux capacitor has blown, the storeman who should heave one in the stores doesnt work weekends, so they sent a manager, (white shirt and tie) to get one,they also told him he needed a glass hammer, a long stand, some sky hooks, and a fufu valve, along with some stripped paint, and for him to have a read of the book of crap excuses for technical failures.
He has been gone quite a while.
More likely this was the cure
I'd be pissed off if I'd booked a weekend trip to a European Christmas market.
I'd be pissed off if I'd booked a weekend trip to a European Christmas market.
Theres one on in liverpool, and my cruise ship there was cancelled yesterday due to high tides and winds.