virgin atalantic website unavailable again this AM

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.

Not to be crabby, but this isn't unusual. Websites are not infallible, power outages occur, plainly: s**t happens.

[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.

[Pete]

I'm not going to throw any stones. V-Flyer suffers downtime too

[preiffer]

True, Pete - but we don't have millions and millions of £ riding on it being available 24/7


... yet

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 ...

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......!!

Just tried to look up some information ... down again! Maybe BA are flooding them [:p]

Tried to enter advanced passenger info yesterday and it was down, back up this morning.