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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by dustintrex on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:04AM (#28824539)
Decades-old, duct-taped architecture is endemic across the airline industry though, and AFAIK Southwest isn't even particularly bad on this front. American Airlines's original reservation system Sabre, still a major GDS player today, was first put together in the 1950s and is by some reckonings the oldest commercial (as in, non-government/military/research) computer system out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by namdnay on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:21AM (#28826035)
Southwest are better than most NA carriers in this regard, they switched to Amadeus a few years ago. Which is "only" 10-30 years old (depending on the components).
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