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They aren’t referring to the client side of this question. Airline websites generally have the quality of any generic corporate IT project…

I assume what the parent was referring to is the backend systems like Sabre that coordinates travel and ticketing between airlines, travel agents, etc. It is a truly ancient system by today’s standards, with origins in the 1960s and mainframes. Systems like this actually have started to limit what airlines can do and how many flights they can manage.

See: https://viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are-running-out-of-flig...




Yes, this was the kind of thing I was curious about.




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