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… Ash Cloud Risk, Australian style

June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  Ash Cloud Risk – the impact of volcanic uncertainty on your air travel objectives. I have an objective to fly to Toronto on Saturday for the World Conference on Disaster Management. There is a volcano in Chile that is spewing uncertainty into my travel plans. Remarkably, this ash cloud is taking the long way [...]

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… Qantas needs more robust IT

January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

an outage in the Qantas check-in system, reportedly fixed within an hour, leads to flights delays across the world. Truly robust and redundant IT systems are not easy. Also highlights the interconnected nature and ‘knock on’ effect of such disruptions.

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