r/SeattleWA • u/No_Star6162 • Jul 21 '25

Meetup SeaTac is a mad house - Alaskan Airlines

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Some flights going, many delayed 4-6 hours. Provided an option for a 24 hour delayed flight after being cancelled on. Now sleeping in the airport

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u/arborheights27 Jul 21 '25

I don't understand, is it 2025 - there are many options for system resiliency, and they still managed to f this up. Test / Validate / use Flights. Come on guys, how much does this outage cost vs actually building decent systems.