Was reading this on HN and heard it on NPR simultaneously.
I have a sneaking suspicion that booking systems for most airlines run atop legacyware. It just seems like the type of thing that would've been put in place long ago and then be very expensive to migrate/updgrade.
> The biggest problem, one that would drive any tech-savvy user crazy, is that United junked an award-winning, state-of-the-art reservation system and adopted the Continental Airlines model based on older technology known as System One.
I have a sneaking suspicion that booking systems for most airlines run atop legacyware. It just seems like the type of thing that would've been put in place long ago and then be very expensive to migrate/updgrade.