Comair Blames Software Meltdown for Flight Delays.(investigation into holiday flight delays of Comair Inc. by Department of Transportation)

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After troubles with its 32-year-old crew-scheduling software spawned huge holiday flight delays, Delta Airlines' subsidiary Comair resumed its usual flight schedule in the middle of this week. But Comair is now under the glare of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

Comair's problems began on Christmas Day, when the failure of a legacy software program from SBS International--now a subsidiary of Boeing--was apparently to blame for bringing a Comair computer server to a total halt.

Comair returned to 75 percent of...

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