{"id":90326,"date":"2024-07-20T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-old-system-unaffected-it-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:36:19","slug":"southwest-airlines-saved-from-global-it-outage-thanks-to-32-year-old-microsoft-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=90326","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Saved From Global IT Outage Thanks To 32-Year-Old Microsoft System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Many carriers were brought to their knees yesterday due to a software outage at technology company <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a>. Some of the world&#8217;s largest carriers have canceled flights, planes grounded, and are reverting to old-school techniques to check-in and board aircraft. However, the world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\">Southwest<\/a>, has been able to power through due to an operating system that is 32 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/where-is-southwest-airlines-based\/\">Dallas-based Southwest Airlines<\/a> was unaffected yesterday by the Microsoft outage that has plagued carriers in every corner of the globe. This is due to the airline working from Windows 3.1, a version that was first released in April 1992 as the successor to Windows 3.0    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many carriers were grounded or delayed, Southwest could continue functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,7063,645,8942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-ground-stop","category-southwest-airlines","category-system-outage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90327,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90326\/revisions\/90327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}