Network outage causes Alaska Air delays, cancellations
Published On: Oct 09 2012 09:35:49 AM PDT   Updated On: Oct 08
2012 09:45:05 PM PDT Alaska Airlines network outage SPOKANE,
Wash. -   A cut Sprint fiber cable in Wisconsin stranded
hundreds of people at Spokane International Airport and many
more airports across the country for much of the day. The
severed Sprint line brought down the airline's reservation,
check-in and purchase system across the country.  People
traveling to places like France, California and Alaska spent the
first leg of their journey in the terminal at the Spokane
International Airport, many spending hours waiting, and in some
cases rebooking, a canceled flight.  For passenger Brian Hodge
and his daughter what they found wasn't a window or aisle seat
but a floor seat. Their time sitting on the floor was equal to
the time it would have taken them to fly to Seattle. The Hodges
were ultimately flying back home to Pennsylvania.  "They can't
get any planes off the ground and they can't reb