Humberto at ATL

Here is my try at blogging away from a BlackBerry. I am sitting in ATL airport for a couple of extra hours like a lot of people tonight.

Humberto didn't stay here long, but it was evidently turbulent enough to stop everything for a while. But, the airport is much more crowded than last week at the same time. Somehow, the people could get here, but the planes to take them somewhere else aren't ready. The logistical challenges of keeping up with the planes, crews, and passengers when this "irregular operations" take place is pretty extraordinary. The system automatically rebooks you according to some magic formula.

If software wasn't there, then the system couldn't work. When software works, then you can scale better to plan these scenarios.

What a difference a week makes. And if I had happened to book the earlier flight home, then I probably wouldn't make it home tonight because that flight was canceled.

Oh, 2 hours late and they have just pushed the flight departure out another half hour. I love flying...