British Airways struck with a catastrophic computer crash that has grounded flights around the world.

bbc.com

The problems have affected BA call centres, the website and the mobile app.

Aviation expert Julian Bray said: “It’s frozen the whole system so no British Airways plane can actually take off, they can’t move the baggage, they can’t issue passenger credentials, in fact they can’t do anything at all.

“This is a very serious problem, they should have been able to switch to an alternative system - surely British Airways should be able to do this.”

Malcolm Ginsberg, editor in chief at Business Travel News, expects the disruption to last for “three or four days”.

Air industry consultant John Strickland said the backlog of aircraft was “a choreographic nightmare”.

(more at the BBC)

I’m guessing their software isn’t ready for self-driving cars, though computers have been used in aviation almost my entire life.

Maybe if we had flying cars.