Air Traffic Control Delays and “technical problems”

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You can always tell its a bank holiday, airports up and down the country announce long delays or even cancellations of flights due to “technical problems”

This bank holiday is no exception with thousands of travellers forced to hang around like bad farts in a lift while the twats at air traffic control sort out the “technical glitch in the Matrix”.

Apparently they fixed the problem (although they never published what it was), but now of course there’s a massive backlog of flights – a classic domino effect which will rumble on for a few more days even though for a lot of travellers it will mean missed connections, delays and all sorts of inconveniences.

But my point here is more to do with how we’re becoming so dependent on technology working 24/7. One little “technical problem” whether its at an airport, an ATM, a supermarket checkout, or even your broadband going offline, can cause all sorts of problems, even though the downtime may only be for a few minutes or hours.

The push towards electronic technology, a cashless society, a chip and pin world where everything is supposed to make our lives easier, falls on its arse when these “glitches” fuck things up and we’re all stumped for a Plan B.

But of course the experts and the supporters will say “It’s just a one-off. It won’t happen again because it super-duper!”

Yes, they said that with Tesla self-drive cars!

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Nominated by Technocunt.

54 thoughts on “Air Traffic Control Delays and “technical problems””

  3. Some point in the future Zoomers will be the generation in charge, and entirely dependent on the microchip and a constant supply of electricity, without any mechanical knowledge or basic grasp of chemical energy or cooking.

    Should a major solar flare or coronal mass ejection erupt from the sun, civilisation will be fucked.

  4. The problem is often compounded by a lack of an alternative back up system, be it software or good old paper and pen.
    Ok, air traffic control is a complex issue, but tills not operating in shops or petrol stations because of system failure is a joke. Having said that, if there’s no price on an item they’re fucked and liable to be accused of pocketing money if a mistake is made.
    Over reliance on tech is a cunt

    • It certainly is Field Marshal and when these cunts follow the sat nav util they drive off the cliff edge, well it’s just fucking hilarious.

  5. Are we surprised?
    Nothing works in this country anymore.
    Hasn’t done for years.
    Mind you, it got a heck of a lot worse after Johnson and his fellow chancers got their grubby mitts on the levers of power.
    May their mothers forever suck cocks in Hell.

  8. I blame the covids. Everything ran smoothly pre 2020. Now no one can be arsed to go to the office or are scared stiff of microbes. Rishi is the man for the job – he will sort it out. Better than the clown Johnson and the mental Truss woman, they said. On, wait…he is a useless glove puppet cunt Who could have guessed?

  9. Apparently the fault on this occasion lies with the French,who submitted a flight plan with some erroneous code in it.

    Probably an innocent error..but just in case sink every French vessel in the English Channel including all their nig n0g dinghies.

    Then have a nice scotch.

    • So it was the Frogs wot dun it.
      Makes a change from climate change, racism and/or Brexit.

  10. Apparently Johnny Froggo mis-spelled something in a flight plan and instead of saying “Get it right, you snail-gobbling cunt,” The System then burst into floods of tears displayed the Blue Screen of Death and required our ATC controllers* to do everything manually. No doubt this was because Brexit, like everything else. And we’ll be handing Macron a few more millions in the unrealistic hope that he won’t let his citizens do that again. Ha.

    Alternatively, and I find this rather more credible, it was a DDOS originating in St Petersburg in loving memory of the undead “Schrodinger’s” Prigozhin. The truth is relative these days.

    *Splendid chaps, and much better at their job than Windows 11 Airport Edition, but slower, because they check their work.

  11. Those in charge of the system probably had to meet their diversity targets and employed a dark skinned technician with qualifications from the University of Mbongo in spear chucking. He caused a ‘glitch’ when the spear hit the wrong button.

  14. It doesn’t directly effect me,
    Therefore I don’t care.

    I could of guessed it was the fault of a Frenchman.

    Some lisping, garlic drenched,Louis thinking about if he should start a riot or cheat on his wife that day.

    Oh well, victimless accident.

    • I’m same pal.
      I was watching some YouTube stuff on the Maui fires and the obvious land grab by the billionaire cunts.
      But…
      Fuck em.

  15. ”The push towards electronic technology, a cashless society, a chip and pin world where everything is supposed to make our lives easier”

    That’s how it is sold but dig a little deeper. If you look at their plan for a global CBDC (cashless society) will find that all private property will be recorded via tokenisation on their ”unified ledger” based on their rules https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2023e3.htm

    Read more and you will find out they want total control over transactions, assets, and personal data. They are also planning to add social credit scores and digital IDs. Once CBDCs are brought in, it’s over!

  16. When I was coming back from Cologne last month my passport wouldn’t scan at Stansted, and I had to go to the ‘seek assistance’ line (basically a couple guys doing the same job as the machines. Turns out the problem was a tiny little speck of dirt on the number row not even a mm across.

    • I always know I am in the Uk passport queue at Stansted because they are all foreigners.

  18. If we believe our conspiratorially-minded cunters, it’s part of “their” plan to stop the masses travelling and close all but three UK airports by 2049.

    However, let’s not get bogged down in ‘oo did what to ‘oo with this one, because if this is to stop the Great Unwashed from travelling abroad, I’m all for it.

    We fly from Manchester Airport most of the time, and some of the behaviour… fat orange Cheshire slappers, white-toothed polo-shirted Gavins and their brood of sprogs making havoc before they’ve even boarded the flight to act like pissed up, shit-flinging chimps en-route to a fortnight of all-inclusive egg and chips in Magaluf.

    Awful. Proper scummy.

    And don’t get me started on those fish-faced Chong types in the airport with their piss-boiling “hawaaa… singtongyao” voices and inability to understand queuing.

    Or the Sand People. You know, the Aubergine- coloured “kam dis weh, Sah!” types. And yes, I did just quote Derek and Clive’s fucking fantastic “Ephraim” sketch.

    If these “technical glitches” keep the aforementioned out, then that’s fine by me.

  19. Who believes a fucking word of it? Underinvestment and living on a prayer like the rest of the failing infrastructure in this 3rd world wannabe so called nation.

    Every single service is now failing peak use stress tests. Might have to turn your power off for a few hours in the depths of winter because too many selfish cunts want to keep warm, nothing to do with lack of energy security planning or an extra ten million people.

    Did some cunt in air traffic control forget to turn the other windows 95 workgroup server on prior to the bank holiday?

    The government although it believes its sole purpose is to collect as much tax as possible is responsible to ensure that the nation’s infrastructure is as up to date and reliable as is reasonably possible. Instead they let greedy pieces of shit milk it for profit and share dividends whilst we are all exposed to an ever increasing risk of total failure of vital infrastructure.

    Fuck me I’m starting to sound like a socialist, time for some dark rum as I gently rock back and forth in despair wondering how we gave the sociopathic lunatics control of the asylum.

  20. A neighbour of mine works at Manchester Airport, and he tells me it is currently teeming with scum. Tattooed chavs, fat slags, orange people, Tasha’s Mam types, and cunts shouting ‘Am not standin for this’ when they know full well that gobbing off will not change a thing.

    I think it’s hilarious that loads of chavs are like chickens with no heads. Not so nice for the airport staff though.

  21. Them’s the cunts I was referring to. So fucking fat they can barely fit through the biometric gates and/or security. They’ll also scran down on a burger and chips at 6:30 in the morning, which is revolting.

    If you go to the airport feeling aggressive, you’re gonna make it worse for yourself. Accept it’s gonna be shit until you get on the plane, put some headphones in, bang a podcast on, and you’ll be reet.

    Also, don’t drink. Not that it’ll stop the Aimee’s Mam types from getting on the Lambrini/Blue Drink. I gave up airport boozing last year, and it’s made flying a lot less stressful.**

    **That said, I am going to New York in January. We’ve booked a pre-flight lounge, and I believe the sauce is included there and on the flight. Let’s see if I practice what I preach! 😄

  22. I think aviation is common.

    You meet the most dreadful people.
    The Wright brothers, Aimee Johnson, Harrison ford,Bruce Dickinson etc.

    All clambering aboard the Spruce Goose at Ringway airport.

    Ghastly.

    I like a sea voyage myself.
    Hello sailor!
    I say to everyone.
    They hate me.
    Good.

    • The wealthy divorcees must love you on the Saga Norwegian fjords cruises Mis.

      • They do indeed LL!

        ” oh suppose your going to rape me before pillaging?
        Rip off my dress you brute, and take me on the floor like a wild animal?”

        But I was only going to the all you can eat buffet LL.

  23. I’m so glad that I don’t fly, and stick to Dear Old Blighty.

    Just the thought of travelling with the Great British Public makes me feel quite liverish.

    ” Here we go ! Here we go ! Here we go ! ”

    Do fuck off.

  24. The wonders of technology? I was in Tesco today, and when I got some kippers the scanner said one packet was 101 pounds and the second lot were 601 pounds. Needless to say, I complained. And several members of staff didn’t know why the kippers were so expensive. And, worse still, they didn’t even know how to put them through at normal price. After a ridiculous amount of waiting I just walked out.

    But imagine some poor old cunt in there? Gets a tin of cat food and gets charged 500 quid for it? They’d die on the spot.

  25. Off topic. The mother of Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has been hospitalised after going on hunger strike in protest at the treatment of her son, a local priest has said.

    Angeles Bejar locked herself in a church in Motril on Monday.

    And all because he gave some bird a peck. For fuck’s sake.

    A couple of us have already nominated this absolute farce. An emergency cunting, I think.

    • Well done!
      This dago sex pest and his pathetic excuse for a mother is a fucking disgrace and gives us decent, upstanding, red blooded, horny sons of bitches a bad name.

      • He has posted footage of Hermoso laughing later at the kiss.
        Maybe his arrest for ‘sexual violence’ will be taken off the table now.

      • Nah, Miles. It won’t matter if that bird is on film laughing or saying that she enjoyed it. Regardless of evidence, they want this man to suffer. And they will make sure he will.

  26. ATC , being a serious job is trying to avoid diversity hires because it likes to keep rich cunts alive.

  27. Don’t be fooled – easy to blame the an airline (apparently the surrender monkeys across the channel).

    This was Putin’s doing, I am sure of it…

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