Virgin Blue canceled and reorganized a lot of flights yesterday as their computer system failed at national level. Image: Melvyn Haour-Knipe source: the Daily Telegraph 
Sarah MacPherson (15) and David Bonnette (28) waiting to fly and enjoying free muffins being given out yesterday from Virgin staff at Sydney Airport. Image: Melvyn Haour-Knipe source: the Daily Telegraph 
Virgin Blue canceled and re-arranged a flights yesterday as their computer system failed at national level. Image: Melvyn Haour-Knipe source: the Daily TelegraphSome customers Virgin Blue will be blocked for a second night after a meltdown check in Sunday.
At least 18 flights were cut today and there are delays airport at least 30 minutes.
The company's computer system died Sunday morning, throwing the travel plans of hundreds of thousands into chaos and forcing some customers stranded to put yourself in the hotel at night.
Today the gremlins EN were sorted at the start but by 1 pm Virgin Blue flights had cancelled 18.
Notice of long queues of airport was also how to remove the account registration-jam got underway.
A spokesman said that some passengers had to spend a second night in alternative accommodation as operational planning of airline AAP returns to normal.
She was able to give an exact number of passengers concerned or say if a particular State was hit worse than others.The company also was forced to scrap his daily happy hour, offering those flights reservation between 12 AM and 1 pm to get a discount.
"Happy hour not verified today while we concentrate on the problems of it system that hit yesterday our network," the company tweeted.
In a statement of 1 pm, Virgin Blue flights said 145 with expected departure 400 of midday Monday had left.
Average waiting Times at airports was 30 minutes, it added.
Anyone was delayed more than four hours will be given a credit for a free flight to use sometime in the future.
This follows the chaos yesterday when check-in of Virgin Blue and booking systems crashed shortly after 8 pm, forcing the crew to switch to manual systems.
At least 100 flights were cancelled-including 64 from or to Sydney-and every flight was delayed.
While the Virgin would only admit that had been affected "thousands", the airline carries an average of more than 40,000 passengers per day.
Seven Network reported that approximately 100 flights, affecting 100,000 passengers, were cancelled.
Sydney Airport more had to wait three or four hours, but those delayed more than four hours to get a line of credit with the airline to travel in another time.
Hundreds flooded rival airline Jetstar in despair but the most important holiday routes were booked by yesterday afternoon, with Jetstar unable to put on any additional services.
Also business-class flights Sydney-Melbourne Qantas at up to $ 677 were full.
A hardware problem to an external server swept out of control of Virgin Blue-in system at national level and brought down his website.
The airline said to Navitaire, the external service provider reservations and check-in systems, it is not successful until 8 am, forcing the switch to the slower manual check in your computer's hardware system.
The problem of computer had stopped Virgin Blue flights in airports across the country, as well as the web check-in service and some international flights Virgin Pacific.
"I would like to take this opportunity to express my apology," said the Executive Group of Danielle Keighery corporate communications.
Virgin has sought to appease his passengers irritated with 1000 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, muffins 2000 and thousands of bottles of water.
However, the passengers were still furious.
Flight 9 am of Janine Boland at home in Gold Coast was cancelled, leaving her and her daughter Olivia, 12, stranded.
"I'm really pissed off. we are really angry. I've got to get home to go to work tomorrow," he said.
"I tried to get to another flight, but everything was booked out.
"I asked the Virgin staff what would do if they were in my position. they said try again tomorrow."
Claire Howey from Brisbane was refused to leave the airport, saying, "there is no way I'm leaving until flight. I have a cat waiting at home for me."
But I'm Craig Marley saw a funny side: "the Virgin" Is ridiculous.
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