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I know a guy with the last name 'Tester' that had to have a gate agent book their flight every ~10 minutes until their flight departed because the reservation system in production would delete any reservations with the last name 'Tester'.

Thought it was a fun story related to the immaturity of reservation / booking systems.



>I know a guy with the last name 'Tester' that had to have a gate agent book their flight every ~10 minutes until their flight departed because the reservation system in production would delete any reservations with the last name 'Tester'.

Jesus. Given that one of the Senators from Montana is named Tester, I would have thought someone would have been up the FAA's ass to get up their asses about this.


I think it was isolated to international flights on a non-us single carrier. Maybe the Senator from Montana has just been lucky?


In Ontario Canada, someone recently had trouble trading in their car because it had a lien from "Pebbles and Fred Flintstone". It took 9 months to correct.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/05/10/ont-woman...




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