Jetstar Web site casualty of AU$1 fare war
Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
09 July 2007 12:45 PM
update JetStar's online booking system has melted down for the second time this year after it today released 10,000 one-way seats at AU$1 each.
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The problem is a repeat of the meltdown that occurred in February 2007 when JetStar announced 22,000 seats for AU$22 each to some 300,000 e-mail subscribers.
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The campaign generated 500,000 hits within the first hour.
Pregellio could not confirm whether JetStar had in fact added capacity to its online booking engine since February but said the maximum capacity it could handle was 10,000 simultaneous connections.
She added, “We’re well equipped to handle that volume for one to two hours.”