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Former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo on getting operations back on track at United Airlines.
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Here on Fox Business united flights experiencing delays after being grounded across the country by a massive computer failure joining me now -- -- out well.
Former inspector general at the Department of Transportation.
Very -- for for joining us you know this is their third computer failure since June and -- -- -- it's gonna take that to get operations back on track today.
Well they won't get their operations back on track right away if it is the computers are -- right -- -- what the problem is that they -- booking of all the passengers and they'll they will have a bump in their system at least.
If if for the passengers at least.
Through tomorrow because planes at this time maybe here are above 90% -- Other times of the year they could probably be rebuilt with -- day but now not only united -- -- all the other -- triple as well so there's been they're going to be being fallout from.
From that -- day -- -- for the travelers.
Not that the problem being is based certainly don't want this to repeat next week at -- is at least the fourth one is here they have had -- here Ella.
It does that alarm you marry because united is what the largest airlines in the country obviously -- got American sitting in bankruptcy right now.
Then you got united fresh off the continental merger still -- to having operational issues.
Computer glitches and more with the pilots everything I -- concerned about united at all and should travelers be concerned about united.
Well yes you have a need to be concerned not just pretty inconvenient street in that respect agreed that they don't have a good control their computers is -- not on doesn't affect their operations -- -- -- -- -- its security.
And I expect that the Federal Aviation Administration.
Had their own computer problem.
From habitat but it'll be looking at that is well and as -- -- -- because there's an awful lot of data information not just about travelers.
But up -- operation in the United Airlines and that's one of the airline to secure the planes September 11 it out -- why.
-- need to -- especially good parent about the security of it -- -- as well the convenience of the trap.
Thanks here.
