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VS Website down (26 Sep 2006)

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 15:42
by Bazz
I noticed it was slow and not retrieving bookings earlier, now they have taken it down and posted a holding message. Damn, just when I needed to firm up my seat allocations!

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 15:55
by Neil
Seems to be happening a lot at the moment, think it is still to do with the new features and doing updates on those etc.

Neil:)

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 17:26
by slinky09
Still down for me - ho hum, I wonder how much lost business this causes?

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 17:31
by Nottingham Nick
I agree, it happens WAY too often. It must lose them a fortune in lost revenue and it doesn't reflect well on the company.

My son got his 2K birthday bonus today and can't get online to get them added to his account. [:(!]

Nick

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 17:34
by Bazz
I have just been talking to Premier Team, it is not just the VS website that has gone down but the whole reservation system! It came back up for half an hour but then crashed again.

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 19:10
by Vegascrazy
All seems back to normal now:)

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 20:14
by jamie
Except if you're on BT Broadband....where i still can't access the site!

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 20:19
by Ongen
Seems to be down again! Is it me or do they REALLY need to sort out their systems - this happens quite a bit!

PostPosted: 26 Sep 2006, 21:17
by Mavrick
I just went to update my booking and its down again. :)

PostPosted: 27 Sep 2006, 10:56
by David_Doyle
Down yet again!!! [:(] What is going on?!

David.

PostPosted: 27 Sep 2006, 10:58
by preiffer
Nope - it's ok for me... [:?]

PostPosted: 27 Sep 2006, 11:00
by Neil
I also just used it, no problems!

PostPosted: 27 Sep 2006, 21:42
by jamie
It's still down for me @ home but can use it from work no problem.. BT are still investigating. Day 5 and counting!

PostPosted: 27 Sep 2006, 22:24
by Airbus340

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 03:58
by VS-EWR
virgin-atlantic.com is the official web address I believe. Perhaps there's something going wrong with the automatic referral so when you go to virginatlantic.com it doesn't work.

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 11:22
by irishboy22
I found that if the website says its down, type in http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/booking

The page will give you an error page but you can access the links on the right hand side and they bring you into the site! It's ALWAYS worked for me when the main page has been down..

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 11:36
by Matty
Hmmmm It's down again??

It's been down more times than a Vegas Crack ho' [}:)]

They'd be better off with a BBc B or a ZX Spectrum [:w]

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 11:38
by Neil
Originally posted by Matty
Hmmmm It's down again??

It's been down more times than a Vegas Crack ho' [}:)]

They'd be better off with a BBc B or a ZX Spectrum [:w]


All working fine for me, I always use http://www.virginatlantic.co.uk or http://www.virgin.com/atlantic just been using it 2 mins ago.

Neil

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 11:41
by Matty
Originally posted by irishboy22
I found that if the website says its down, type in http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/booking

The page will give you an error page but you can access the links on the right hand side and they bring you into the site! It's ALWAYS worked for me when the main page has been down..


Ah ha ...that seems to work. Thanks

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 16:33
by radar
All the various domains mentioned here resolve to the same IP address, so they are using the same server (farm). Looking at the name server configuration though, they are slightly different for each domain. Don't think that is the problem though. It might be that because we are all frequent visitors, some of us have pages cached, and so long as we are not carrying out transactions, such as querying flights, we get a valid response from the cache. Just a thought. I'll keep an eye on them out of interest.[:?]

PostPosted: 28 Sep 2006, 22:26
by jamie
Still nothing however I type it in!

PostPosted: 01 Oct 2006, 12:58
by Gavin
I think its down again ![:(!]

PostPosted: 01 Oct 2006, 13:25
by Captain Paul
It is! Trying to check in online for tomorrow! :o(

PostPosted: 01 Oct 2006, 14:33
by mitchja
It's back up again now :)

Regards

PostPosted: 01 Oct 2006, 15:37
by slinky09
If anyone from VS is reading - my company has developed a number of critical business online apps presented through Web sites - drop me a PM and we'll help you sort it out!