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virgin atalantic website unavailable again this AM

PostPosted: 22 Jun 2006, 23:30
by mysteryflyer
This morning I got the message
"SORRY THE SITE IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

Blah Blah Blah... "


Whats going on when they do this? Are new special offers being loaded up.. Enquiring minds want to know.

PostPosted: 22 Jun 2006, 23:56
by VS-EWR
Not to be crabby, but this isn't unusual. Websites are not infallible, power outages occur, plainly: s**t happens.

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2006, 00:02
by preiffer
To be fair, Nick, va.com does have a higher than average downtime compared to most other commercial sites. Given that a high amount of their core business is transacted over the web, I'm surprised at how often it appears to be offline over a typical month.

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2006, 00:05
by Pete
I'm not going to throw any stones. V-Flyer suffers downtime too ;)

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2006, 00:07
by preiffer
True, Pete - but we don't have millions and millions of £ riding on it being available 24/7


... yet ;)

PostPosted: 23 Jun 2006, 07:58
by slinky09
Originally posted by preiffer
To be fair, Nick, va.com does have a higher than average downtime compared to most other commercial sites. Given that a high amount of their core business is transacted over the web, I'm surprised at how often it appears to be offline over a typical month.


This is too true ... a commercial Web site such as VS should operate with 99.95%+ planned uptime ... I'd guess their actual is poor compared to this and that should be a significant cause for concern (in other businesses heads would roll!). £milions will be transacted over it and that's why ...

PostPosted: 25 Jun 2006, 22:20
by tallprawn
Originally posted by preiffer
To be fair, Nick, va.com does have a higher than average downtime compared to most other commercial sites. Given that a high amount of their core business is transacted over the web, I'm surprised at how often it appears to be offline over a typical month.


I want to give them some money right now - Guess what!!! It's down again!!!! [:?]

Tyr again later I suppose......!! :D

PostPosted: 25 Jun 2006, 23:33
by slinky09
Just tried to look up some information ... down again! Maybe BA are flooding them [:p]

PostPosted: 26 Jun 2006, 14:22
by A380
Tried to enter advanced passenger info yesterday and it was down, back up this morning.