An IT glitch leaves the cabin crew expecting to welcome a baby on board rather than a centenarian.

A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system.

The problem occurs because American Airlines’ systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.

The BBC witnessed the latest mix-up, which she and the cabin crew were able to laugh off.

“It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady!” she said.

But the centenarian says she would like the glitch to be fixed as it has caused her some problems in the past.

  • Fisk400@feddit.nu
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    7 months ago

    2 digits to the birth year.

    They dont put 101 years old in their database they write in 1923.

    When they made the booking program they had such limited memory for their computer that they just stored 23 and removed the 19.

    The assumption was that the companies would continually update and redo their systems to fix this flaw as computers got more powerful.

    Turns out that late stage capitalism is unable to make the small investments to keep up with infrastructure improvements so here we are with planes that fall apart and booking systems running on floppy disks.