V-Flyer

Hi everyone, just spotted this on the "news" section of the website.

It's a copy and paste, but hope that's OK given where it's come from? Feel free to take it down (hopefully after a few people have seen it) and repost as appropriate if it's not allowed as a straight copy.

"In order to make improvements to our technology infrastructure, you will not be able to access your Flying Club or Flying Co account between 22:00 on Friday 20 February and 17:50 (UK time) on Saturday 21 February 2015.

This means you will be unable to make reward bookings or spend your miles during this time, either on our website or via our Contact Centres.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."

They haven't done the unthinkable, taken the plunge and actually bought Windows 98 have they?

Might have something to do with the news of changing server providers on a earlier thread?

I've heard they're upgrading to Windows Me, as it's the one thing that should mean the Millennium Bug shouldn't cause too many problems with their system.

gumshoe wrote:They haven't done the unthinkable, taken the plunge and actually bought Windows 98 have they?

hiljil wrote:

gumshoe wrote:They haven't done the unthinkable, taken the plunge and actually bought Windows 98 have they?

Apparently the world's first operating system was GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors' research division (I quote Wikipedia). So they must be upgrading to v2.

slinky09 wrote:Apparently the world's first operating system was GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors' research division (I quote Wikipedia). So they must be upgrading to v2.

Don't be so silly. v1.2.

ROFLMAO

I must admit I am concerned, due to problems recently selecting to spend miles in flight searches, that VS IT have decided to remove the facility to search for an book reward flights online. Scary.

gumshoe wrote:

slinky09 wrote:Apparently the world's first operating system was GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors' research division (I quote Wikipedia). So they must be upgrading to v2.

Don't be so silly. v1.2.

Surly that's far too advanced for the Hamsters to power. Unless they are recruiting more.

v.1.02 would be pushing it!

tontybear wrote:

gumshoe wrote:

slinky09 wrote:Apparently the world's first operating system was GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors' research division (I quote Wikipedia). So they must be upgrading to v2.

Don't be so silly. v1.2.

Surly that's far too advanced for the Hamsters to power. Unless they are recruiting more.

v.1.02 would be pushing it!

Of course they aren't recruiting more, tonty! Two of the female hamsters recently had a litter of pups each and they are now strong enough to join the work force!

gumshoe wrote:They haven't done the unthinkable, taken the plunge and actually bought Windows 98 have they?

Class, that's the funniest thing I have seen on here in a while..!

i made this years ago by manipulating a stock clip, it was to explain some concepts to salespeople, this copy is compressed beyond all reason to make it small

i suspect that VS IT agents may have obtained a copy of the original for analysis and that this upgrade heralds the installation of a second wheel in the crawley bunker

Infrastructure inprovements, eh? I wouldn't try to login until Monday. Haha.

Mr G wrote:"In order to make improvements to our technology infrastructure, you will not be able to access your Flying Club or Flying Co account between 22:00 on Friday 20 February and 17:50 (UK time) on Saturday 21 February 2015."

Any attempt to access your Flying Club or Flying Co account during this period will, in all likelihood, result in the account falling, for nine days, from Earth to Tartarus.

We regret that accounts cannot be recovered from Tartarus.

Good news, no need to worry, they have managed to fix it

Well whatever they did seems to have slowed down (that's me being optimistic - if I were being pessimistic I'd say stopped) miles & TPs being credited.

I flew Little Red on Friday and would normally expect them to have appeared in my account today but nothing so far. Fingers crossed they'll be there tomorrow.

gumshoe wrote:Well whatever they did seems to have slowed down (that's me being optimistic - if I were being pessimistic I'd say stopped) miles & TPs being credited.

I flew Little Red on Friday and would normally expect them to have appeared in my account today but nothing so far. Fingers crossed they'll be there tomorrow.

Optimist!

Flying club was available yesterday though despite the notice.

yes i tried logging in to see what would happen and also found it all seemed to be operating as normal

so, is it...
- IT improvement was so fast smooth as to be unnoticeable, the outage notice was issued just in case
- IT improvement postponed due to IT issue

polb74 wrote:Flying club was available yesterday though despite the notice.

Probably because the floppy disks with the new OS couldn't be found!

Mrs. McCoy couldn't get her BP to phone yesterday after OLCI.. we assumed it was the IT thing.