Comments on: For US Airways, March 3 is More Than National Anthem Day http://crankyflier.com/2007/02/23/for-us-airways-march-3-is-more-than/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:20:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The CF http://crankyflier.com/2007/02/23/for-us-airways-march-3-is-more-than/comment-page-1/#comment-205 The CF Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:42:00 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/?p=277#comment-205 Albert - I can't speak to whether or not it is better or worse, but it is a capable system. Continental uses it and so do a variety of others. It's a product of EDS.<BR/><BR/>I do know that all of the US Airways IT people are familiar with SHARES and almost none of them are familiar with SABRE. The old US Airways had basically farmed out its entire IT team to SABRE, so there is a lot more institutional knowledge when it comes to SHARES. US Airways builds a lot of their own proprietary systems, and those are built to interface with SHARES. I think it was a natural move for them.<BR/><BR/>And as for that second comment, anonymous, bite your tongue! The last thing I want is to be stuck in the Phoenix airport for hours on Sunday waiting to get home. Albert - I can’t speak to whether or not it is better or worse, but it is a capable system. Continental uses it and so do a variety of others. It’s a product of EDS.

I do know that all of the US Airways IT people are familiar with SHARES and almost none of them are familiar with SABRE. The old US Airways had basically farmed out its entire IT team to SABRE, so there is a lot more institutional knowledge when it comes to SHARES. US Airways builds a lot of their own proprietary systems, and those are built to interface with SHARES. I think it was a natural move for them.

And as for that second comment, anonymous, bite your tongue! The last thing I want is to be stuck in the Phoenix airport for hours on Sunday waiting to get home.

]]> By: Anonymous http://crankyflier.com/2007/02/23/for-us-airways-march-3-is-more-than/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Anonymous Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:29:00 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/?p=277#comment-206 Does it make me a bad person that I hope for a borderline catastophic, AirTran Airways-style, overnight systems migration?<BR/><BR/>I love chaos! Does it make me a bad person that I hope for a borderline catastophic, AirTran Airways-style, overnight systems migration?

I love chaos!

]]> By: Albert http://crankyflier.com/2007/02/23/for-us-airways-march-3-is-more-than/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Albert Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:05:00 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/?p=277#comment-207 Pardon my ignorance, but I've never heard of SHARES. Is it a much better system than SABRE? Pardon my ignorance, but I’ve never heard of SHARES. Is it a much better system than SABRE?

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